Tramontana: Poems

by Hugh McMillan

72 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 1990

About the author

Hugh McMillan (born 1955) is a Scottish poet and short story writer. He taught at Annan Academy then taught history in Dumfries Academy until he retired in 2013.

His poetry collections include Thin Slice of Moon, (Roncadora 2013), The Lost Garden (Roncadora 2010), Strange Bamboo (Shoestring 2006) Aphrodite's Anorak (Peterloo, 1996), After a Storm (Smith/Doorstep, 2005), Horridge (Chapman, 1990), Tramontana (Dog and Bone, 1989). His other work includes a schools History book, Standard Grade History: International Relations 1890 - 1930 (Hodder and Stoughton), two children's books, Mac the Rabbit and Mac and the Lost Tribe (King's England Press), and a book about the history of Dumfries. His work commissioned by the Wigtown Book Festival, McMillan's Galloway, was published by Luath in 2015 as was his Selected and New Poems, Not Actually being in Dumfries, also by Luath Press. Subsequent poetry collections from Luath have been Heliopolis and The Conversation of Sheep in 2018.