Prize-winning poet Hugh McMillan read from his new poetry collection ‘The Spider’s Spin On It’ at Thomas Tosh in Thornhill last Saturday. The book, his second collaboration with Dumfries artist Hugh Bryden, is published by Bryden’s own Roncadora Press and is, typically, hand stitched and beautifully illustrated.
All the poems are inspired by McMillan’s enthusiasm for Scottish History – he is a history teacher at Dumfries Academy- and are his own unique slant on some of the famous events, people and places in Scotland’s past. He tells of Robert the Bruce’s famous encounter with the spider, for instance, but from the spider’s point of view. Copies of 'The Spider's Spin On It' are available for sale in Thomas Tosh www.thomastosh.com.
