This slim elegant book HAIRST combines poems by Rab Wilson, written while on the first James Hogg Creative Residency in Ettrick valley, with images by Helen Douglas. Poems and image conjur a sense of place, its landscape and community shaped by sheep farming and the invading forestry, bringing to the page this unique part of the Scottish Borders.

“The James Hogg Residency brought the eyes and ears of a living poet back to all our doorsteps. Captured in this slim volume and coupled with moving images created by Helen Douglas, Rab uses the power of words and of poetry to reconnect us to the power of places we love, to see the familiar with fresh eyes, to meet our forebears and to shine a light on the way we live now. He was inspired.” Duke of Buccleuch