Iain S. Macpherson / Iain S Mac a' Phearsain


Rugadh Iain S Mac a’ Phearsain ann an Canada. Fad deich bliadhna bha e a’ fuireach ann an Slèite far an robh e na òraidiche aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. Tha e a-nise ag obair airson Oilthigh Ulaidh. A bharrachd air a bhith ri sgrìobhadh (bàrdachd, rosg is sgriobtaichean) tha e ag aithris dha Radio nan Gaidheal air gnothaichean an Ear-Mheadhanaich is an t-saoghail mhuslamaich.

Iain S Macpherson was born in Canada. For ten years he lived in Sleat on the Isle of Skye where he was a lecturer in the Gaelic college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. He now works for the University of Ulster. As well as writing (poetry, prose and scripts) he reports on affairs in the Middle East and the Muslim world for Radio nan Gaidheal.

The following recordings were made at the launch of An Guth 4 on 15 February 2007:


seòmar bàn Ghleann Uilleim

Balbh an latha

Dol suas gu mall

Na h-Eilthirich 's am BBC


© Iain S Macpherson and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry 2007