Tom Leonard

For Johann Sebastian there was always music. His family had been musicians, or bachs as they were called in Germany, for 200 years. He always wanted to be a bach. As he grew, he saw patterns in everything. Patterns he would turn into melodies and song, eventually growing into one of the most important and celebrated musical composers of all time. This is the story of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Becoming Bach

Poetry from the French Revolution to World War I (Poetry)

Radical Renfrew

Selected Work, 1965-1983

Intimate Voices

James Kelman

Alex Hamilton

A Collection of Writing by Alex Hamilton, James Kelman, Tom Leonard

Three Glasgow Writers

Bertolt Brecht

In this new translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder," Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking the racy working-class nonstandard language of Glasgow. The rest of the cast speak varieties of English language subtly shaded for irony, accent and all the social hierarchies carried by diction and regional language in a land where diction is an index of class. Best known for his early poems in Glasgow dialect such as 'The Six o'clock News', Tom Leonard invests his translation with the arguments about language and politics that have run as a thread through all his work for almost fifty years. It is a play about the language of politics and the politics of language. As Leonard says, 'the hero of this Mother Courage is the language itself, and it is an anti-hero. Only Kattrin is allowed in her final action to be a proper hero - and she is dumb.'

Mother Courage and Her Children

Barbara Brenner

For one afternoon, a child visitor observes the cycle of change within a tidepool, a small place at the edge of the sea that is home to many plants and animals.

One Small Place by the Sea

Tom Leonard

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