Conversations with Scottish Poets presents fourteen interviews conducted by Italian literary critic and translator Marco Fazzini since the 1980s. By asking the same or similar questions of Scottish poets of different generations, the interviews provide insight both into the ideas and working methods of the individual poets and also into the ways in which the poets’ relationship with their country and its languages have changed between the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Includes interviews with:
· Norman MacCaig
· Sorely Maclean / Somhairle MacGill-Eain
· Edwin Morgan
· Derick Thompson / Ruaridh MacThòmais
· Iain Chrichton Smith / Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn
· Alasdair Gray
· Kenneth White
· Douglas Dunn
· Valerie Gillies
· Christopher Whyte / Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin
· John Burnside
· David Kinloch
· Robert Crawford
· Don Paterson
 

Marco Fazzini teaches at the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Ca’ Foscari, Italy. His major poetry books include: Nel vortice (1999); XX poesie (2007); Driftings and Wrecks (2010); and 24 Selected Poems by Marco Fazzini (2014).