Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie

Poet's Pub is a 1929 comedy novel by the British writer Eric Linklater. An aspiring poet is hired by his friend's mother to run a large inn she has acquired. In 1935 it was one of the original ten Pen