Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Tongue in Yer Heid | 1994 | James Robertson | Buy |
| 2 | ImagiNation: Stories of Scotland’s Future | 2011 | James Robertson | Buy |
| 3 | A Bird is Not a Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry | 2014 | James Robertson | Buy |
James Robertson Anthologies collects three multi-author anthologies that Robertson edited between 1994 and 2014. A Tongue in Yer Heid (1994) is an anthology of writing in Scots, reflecting his early advocacy for the language. ImagiNation: Stories of Scotland’s Future (2011) gathers speculative fiction about Scotland’s political and social future, published in the years surrounding the Scottish independence debate.
A Bird is Not a Stone (2014) is the most distinctive of the three, collecting contemporary Palestinian poetry translated into Scots and English by Scottish poets. The project connects Robertson’s interest in the Scots language with a broader political commitment to cultural solidarity across national borders. The anthology has been praised for its imaginative approach to both translation and political poetry.
All three anthologies reflect Robertson’s role as a literary figure who is active beyond his own writing, working to promote Scots literature, speculative fiction, and international poetry in translation.