Book review: A Gathering - A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems, edited by Alexander McCall Smith

Editing a poetry anthology is the literary equivalent to tip-toeing through a minefield, and never more so than when the anthology in question has a national focus. Are the poets included really the ones that best reflect the heart and soul of a nation? Does the number of poems included by each poet correspond to their perceived literary significance? Do the specific poems selected adequately reflect the output of the poets who wrote them? And of the various poets of note who inevitably failed to make the cut, which are the most hard done by?