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Best Scottish Poems

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Welcome to the Scottish Poetry Library’s annual online anthology of the year’s Best Scottish Poems, selected by different guest editors. We have also introduced Scots and Scottish Gaelic language categories.

Gaelic

Fàilte dhan duanaire air-loidhne againn de na 20 dàin as fheàrr a nochd ann an leabhraichean, leabhranan agus irisean, air a dheasachadh le deasaiche eadar-dhealaichte gach bliadhna.

Thòisich sinn an duanaire bliadhnail fhoillseachadh air Là Fèill Anndra, airson bàrdachd na h-Alba a riochdachadh, ach ghluais sinn àm an fhoillseachaidh dhan earrach airson gun deigheadh aig deasaichean cnuasachadh air bàrdachd fad-bhliadhna. Tric (ach chan ann an-còmhnaidh) cha bhi bùithtean-leabhraichean agus leabharlannan a’ tabhann ach roghainn bheag de bhàrdachd, agus gu h-àraidh de bhàrdachd na h-Alba.

Ann an Dàin Taghta na h-Alba gheibh leughadairean an Alba agus thall thairis cothrom air farsaingeachd agus buaidh ar bàrd fhaicinn, agus an cuid chànanan, sructaran, agus bheachdan.

Fhathast, chan e co-fharpais a th’ ann idir, ach roghainn phearsanta. Gheibhear duanairean nam bliadhna a dh’fhalbh air an làraich-lìn seo fhathast. Tha sinn an dòchas gun còrd an cruinneachadh measgaichte seo dhuibh, agus gun toir e spionnadh dhuibh barrachd rùrachaidh a dhèanamh air làraich-lìn Leabharlann Bàrdachd na h-Alba, agus gun smaoinich sibh mu rudan fhaighinn air iasad no rudan a cheannach bhuainn.

Asif Khan, Stiùiriche

Best Scottish Poems 2021: English

edited by Hugh McMillan
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Dàin Albannach as Fheàrr 2021: Gàidhlig
Best Scottish Poems 2021: Gaelic

edited by Martin MacIntyre
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Best Scottish Poems 2021: Scots

edited by Sheena Blackhall
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Best Scottish Poems 2020: English

edited by Janette Ayachi
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Dàin Albannach as Fheàrr 2020: Gàidhlig
Best Scottish Poems 2020: Gaelic

edited by Ceitidh Campbell
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Best Scottish Poems 2020: Scots

edited by Thomas Clark
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Best Scottish Poems 2019: English

edited by Roseanne Watt
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Dàin Albannach as Fheàrr 2019: Gàidhlig
Best Scottish Poems 2019: Gaelic

edited by Niall O'Gallagher
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Best Scottish Poems 2019: Scots

edited by Derek Ross
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Best of the Best Scottish Poems

edited by James Naughtie
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Best Scottish Poems 2017

edited by Roddy Woomble
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Best Scottish Poems 2016

edited by Catherine Lockerbie
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