The Flechitorium: Ballads, Gaitherins, a Legend and a Tale from the fowk's Republic of Fife (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781907676932)

Tom Hubbard is a novelist, poet and former itinerant academic whose second novel, The Lucky Charm of Major Bessop, appeared from Grace Note Publications in 2014; readers are still working out the teasing clues in this 'grotesque mystery of Fife'. His other works of fiction are the novel Marie B. (Ravenscraig Press, 2008), based on the life of the late-nineteenth century painter Marie Bashkirtseff, and, more recently, Slavonic Dances (Grace Note, 2017), a set of three linked novellas based on the comic and tragic encounters of the Scottish characters with eastern and eastcentral Europe. His book-length collections of poetry are The Chagall Winnocks (2011) and Parapets and Labyrinths (2013), both Scottish and European in their scope and also published by Grace Note. Tom was the first Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and went on to become a visiting university professor in France, Hungary and the USA. He has also worked as a researcher at Maynooth University in his ancestral Ireland. From 2000 to 2005 he edited the online Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT); for this he conducted research in many mainland European countries. Between 2013 and 2016 he edited volumes of essays on Baudelaire, Flaubert and Henry James for Grey House of New York, and a three-volume annotated selection of the writings of Andrew Lang for Taylor & Francis. He has recently prepared a pamphlet (for Tapsalteerie Press) of Scots versions of the work of the Hungarian poet Gyozo Ferencz, and has also worked on other translations of Hungarian poetry, as commissioned by Dr Zsuzsanna Varga of Glasgow University. In Dundee he recorded his Scots versions of European poetry for the CD The Scots Leid in Europe, released in June 2017 by Scotsoun (Scots Language Society / Scots Leid Associe). In November 2015 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts, Budapest, and in April 2017 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies, which is administered at Glasgow University.