Patrick MacGill, ‘the Navvy Poet’ was born in Donegal in 1889 and died in Florida in 1963. He wrote a number of bestselling books (many of which are semi-autobiographical), including, Moleskin Joe, The Rat-pit and The Great Push, as well as a number of poetry collections.Patrick Baker has worked in the publishing industry for many years and is the author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History (Birlinn, 2014) and the acclaimed bestseller The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories (Birlinn, 2020).

'An evocative read about working class life.. should be on every school’s reading list'

Patrick MacGill, ‘the Navvy Poet’ was born in Donegal in 1889 and died in Florida in 1963. He wrote a number of bestselling books (many of which are semi-autobiographical), including, Moleskin Joe, The Rat-pit and The Great Push, as well as a number of poetry collections.Patrick Baker has worked in the publishing industry for many years and is the author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History (Birlinn, 2014) and the acclaimed bestseller The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories (Birlinn, 2020).

'An evocative read about working class life.. should be on every school’s reading list'

Patrick MacGill, ‘the Navvy Poet’ was born in Donegal in 1889 and died in Florida in 1963. He wrote a number of bestselling books (many of which are semi-autobiographical), including, Moleskin Joe, The Rat-pit and The Great Push, as well as a number of poetry collections.Patrick Baker has worked in the publishing industry for many years and is the author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History (Birlinn, 2014) and the acclaimed bestseller The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories (Birlinn, 2020).

'An evocative read about working class life.. should be on every school’s reading list'