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Rymour Books is an award-winning small Scottish independent publisher MISSION - RYMOUR BOOKS was founded in 2020. Email us at [email protected]
It incorporates books published earlier under the imprint Hog's Back, originally set up to publish books on the Scottish folk tradition (the imprint is still used for certain academic titles). Our intention is to publish quality Scottish books by current authors and reprints of works of Scottish substance worthy of further attention. We are a new (2020) independent publishing initiative designed t
31/05/2026
Please come to the launch of Seal Song today (The Record Factory, Byres Road, 3.30pm). Meanwhile, here's a poem from the collection based on a famous Hill and Adamson photograph.
FOUR FISHES
It is often said that there are many fish
in every sea, and here you stand,
splendid in your shawls,
facing an eternity of choices.
And here you are also, four little fishes,
elected from millions of millions,
bones, worms, guts suborned to your symbolic end,
silver darlings, sun-glinted like precious jewels.
And this silent momentary seed
will feed the cadence of coming days and years,
your children and your childrens’ children
cascading into futures outwith your ken.
And this genius of salt-sea passion
will last and last and last for
it is the crux of the photographic craft
to conjure the future as if it were the past.
29/05/2026
All welcome at the Glasgow of Seal Song by Ian Spring on Sunday!
19/05/2026
Glasgow launch of Seal Song coming up. All welcome!
17/05/2026
Successful launch for Seal Song in Perth. Next up Glasgow, 31st May. Watch this space!
21/04/2026
The first launch of Ian Spring new poetry collection coming up in Edinburgh. Pre-orders available from Rymour Books.
14/04/2026
As promised, advance notice of a series of events to promote my new book. Hope to see a lot of friends there!
19/02/2026
Rymour Books has been shortlisted for Scottish Small Press of the Year in the British Book Awards for the FIFTH time!
24/12/2025
Best wishes to everyone for Christmas and the new year!
17/12/2025
The Twelve Books of Christmas #10
The Woman Clothed With The Sun, by Stuart Campbell. The fictionalised story of the real-lfie Elspeth Buchan, who formed a sect that scandalised eighteenth-century Galloway!
Order now to get it by first class postage for Christmas.
www.rymour.co.uk.
16/12/2025
Awayday for some Rymour authors at the launch of Hamish MacDonald's excellent Square Baw.
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