Hame: With

These are poems written in the Scots tongue by a man who left Scotland for South Africa and spent the rest of his life longing for home. The title itself is the word for home, and every poem in this collection aches with that particular exile. Murray captures the moment every wanderer knows: when the road that once called to you now feels like a path leading back to where you began. The language is rich, demotic, full of the rhythms of spoken Scots - this is not literary English dressed up in a kilt, but the actual voice of the people Murray left behind. You'll find the moorland, the mist, the small details of a world that exists now in memory alone. What elevates these poems beyond mere nostalgia is their honesty - Murray knows he cannot go back, and the poems explore that wound with precision and tenderness. For anyone who has ever been far from the place that made them, this collection offers the exact shape of that feeling, rendered in language that has been spoken in Scotland for centuries.