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Glacier—An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth Garry MacKenzie Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid. Imagine, as the ice melts,...

Feeling incredibly proud to be publishing this wonderful essay-poem by Garry MacKenzie, over at @windandbones.com. I'm back in Scotland on Thursday, and will be thinking of it as we speed over the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh towards Dundee.

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Taigael book cover

Wen Ruoqiao 温若喬, translator and poet

“Tâigael is an innovative work & important vehicle that brings life to these beautiful cultures worth preserving. I am truly honoured to be one of the first readers of this impressive work!”

—Wen Ruoqiao 温若喬, translator and poet

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Glacier—An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth Garry MacKenzie Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid. Imagine, as the ice melts,...

PUBLICATION DAY 🥳 🥳

Glacier—An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth by Garry MacKenzie

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#publicationday #poem #poetry #Scotland

Taigael writers Kiu-kiong and Naomi Sím

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Stories & Storytellers | 故事與故事講述者

Meet the Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic talented storytellers and translators and listen to their stories in all four languages.

認識我們才華洋溢的說書人與翻譯者，點擊下方即可用四種語言收聽他們的故事。

Grab a tea and listen FOR FREE 👇✨🤓

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Copies of Tâigael.

From the Taigael website: an image of Lisa MacDonald

Stories & Storytellers | 故事與故事講述者

Meet the Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic talented storytellers and translators and listen to their stories in all four languages.

認識我們才華洋溢的說書人與翻譯者，點擊下方即可用四種語言收聽他們的故事。

Grab a tea and listen FOR FREE 👇✨🤓

taigael.com/stories/

#Taiwan #Scotland

Elee Kirk: Snapshots of a Life in Museums | Will Buckingham In Memory of Elee Kirk

Thinking of my late partner and friend, Dr Elee Kirk, who died nine years ago today. Elee was fabulous, and did amazing research in museum studies. Here's a piece I wrote several years back about this work, and about what Elee taught me about the art of listening.

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Glacier—An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth Garry MacKenzie Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid. Imagine, as the ice melts,...

PUBLICATION DAY 🥳 🥳

Glacier—An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth by Garry MacKenzie

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#publicationday #poem #poetry #Scotland

Glacier by Garry MacKenzie

Writer Garry MacKenzie

PUBLICATION DAY 🥳 🥳

Glacier—An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth by Garry MacKenzie

Grab your copy!

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#publicationday #poem #poetry #Scotland

Copies of Tâigael.

From the Taigael website: an image of Lisa MacDonald

Stories & Storytellers | 故事與故事講述者

Meet the Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic talented storytellers and translators and listen to their stories in all four languages.

認識我們才華洋溢的說書人與翻譯者，點擊下方即可用四種語言收聽他們的故事。

Grab a tea and listen FOR FREE 👇✨🤓

taigael.com/stories/

#Taiwan #Scotland

Writer Naomi Sím

Event poster

Front cover of Tâigael

COMING SOON 😎👇

Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic writer Naomi Sím will be speaking about her strategic writing method.

24th August 2025. Details on the poster!

Copies of Tâigael

Lin Chia-lung 林佳龍, Taiwan Minister of Foreign Affairs

Praise for Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic ✨✍️

“... a book that brings into being a profoundly moving cultural exchange.” - Lin Chia-lung 林佳龍, Taiwan Minister of Foreign Affairs

👉books.windandbones. com 👈 to get your copy. We ship across Taiwan, the UK and beyond.

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Will Buckingham

On Saturday Wind&Bones co-director Will Buckingham chatted to Oleksandr Shyn and Amanda Stephens at Radio Taiwan International about our book Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic. Radio Taiwan International (RTI) is a public radio station that broadcasts in 14 languages. Broadcasts soon!

Glacier will be available as a beautiful PDF digital download.

Head to:

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Glacier by Garry MacKenzie

As the glacier-scoured land takes its modern shape, the poem reflects on what is carried from the past into the present, and asks how poetry can address the complexity—the accumulated guilt and glory—of the past.

Garry MacKenzie’s poem-essay about the Firth of Forth flows implacably forward in time, from the Last Ice Age to the present. In its relentless movement, it sweeps along in its path layers of history and literature—stories, texts, and fragments that bear witness to the histories of Scotland.

Imagine, as the ice melts, the shores gradually repopulated by plants, animals, and people, until the Forth is the main conduit between a society with imperial ambitions and the rest of the world.

Glacier by Garry MacKenzie

COMING 1st August 2025 👇

Glacier: An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth by Garry MacKenzie

Imagine when the Firth of Forth—the estuary at the heart of Scotland—is all glacier, the country around it frozen solid...

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A great day of media and making connections. Really looking forward to these interviews being out in the world. Thank you Radio Taiwan International team! ❤️😎

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Copies of the book Tâigael.

Today we headed from Tainan to Pingtung. Tomorrow we're being interviewed about our recently published book Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic.

Front cover of Glacier.

Glacier—An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth
Garry MacKenzie

Coming soon from Wind&Bones Books...

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#indiepress #poetry #Scotland

Wind&Bones Hannah and Will

We are a tiny team, made up of Dr. Hannah Stevens, and Dr. Will Buckingham. We're not currently taking submissions. But if you want to talk about our books, or if you have ideas for any other interesting projects or fun collaborations, you can always shoot us a message.

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Our collection of contemporary fiction in translation: Tâigael.

Our Wind&Bones Shorts include essays, curiosities, creative writing mini-courses, and fiction by writers we love—things too strange, too wayward, or too fine to find a home elsewhere.

Some of the books and shorts available from Wind&Bones or coming soon!

In our bookshop, you can order our handsome Wind&Bones Paperback Editions direct from us. We ship our paperbacks all over the world, or you can download our books in EPUB format. You can also download our exquisitely-designed Wind&Bones Shorts in PDF and EPUB format.

The front cover of Garry MacKenzie's Glacier.

At Wind&Bones, we're dedicated to exploring the points of intersection between writing, creativity and social change. We believe writing can and does change the world. Not once and for all, but in small ways and large, sometimes incrementally and at other times dramatically.

Hannah & Will

Wind&Bones Books is a publishing house based between Scotland and Taiwan. We publish books we care about, including fiction, translation, philosophy and curious hybrid works.