Fower Pessoas

Shortlisted for the Scots Book o the Year Award 2025 Fower Pessoas  is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa's poetry by an exciting next-generation Scottish poet. Following his subject's unique approach to composition, Colin Bramwell puts all four of Pessoa's heteronyms into a present-day Scots-language vernacular, and so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times. Bramwell's adaptation matches his subject's restless lyr