Tessa Ransford is a poet, translator and literary editor. A cultural activist on many fronts for over forty years, she founded the ScottishPoetry Library. In 2001, she initiated the annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishers of pamphlet poetry in Scotland andhas held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at the Centre for Human Ecology and Queen Margaret University. Full details of her workare available at wisdomfield.com. Recent poetry publications include:Not Just Moonshine: New and Selected Poems (2008); Rug of a Thousand Colours (2012), a collaboration with Palestinian poetIyad Hayatleh inspired by the Five Pillars of Islam; Don’t mention this to anyone (2012), poems connected with India and Pakistan, with calligraphy by Jila Peacock; and Made in Edinburgh (2014),reflections on Arthur’s Seat and Holyrood Park, with photographsby Michael Knowles. A Good Cause offers a new selection of previously uncollected poems, the ‘good cause’ being ultimately the intrinsicgood of poetry itself.