There's more to Scottish poetry than Robert Burns, and here Alexander McCall Smith shares some personal favorites, adding appreciative introductions to each poem. Grouped under such headings as Friendship, Love, War, Secrets, and Joy, here are selections by Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, Muriel Spark, Edwin Muir, Nan Shepherd, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iain Crichton Smith, Tessa Ransford, George Mackay Brown, and many others.