Tessa Ransford is a poet, translator and literary editor. A cultural activist on many fronts for over forty years, she founded the Scottish Poetry Library. In 2001, she initiated the annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishers of pamphlet poetry in Scotland and has held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at the Centre for Human Ecology and Queen Margaret University. Full details of her work are 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 poet Iyad 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 photographs by Michael Knowles. A Good Cause offers a new selection of previously uncollected poems, the `good cause' being ultimately the intrinsic good of poetry itself.