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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 2019: English

edited by Roseanne Watt
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cut truck

Dàin Albannach as Fheàrr 2019: Gàidhlig
Best Scottish Poems 2019: Gaelic

edited by Niall O'Gallagher
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valley with tree

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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Screapadal (2017) by John Bryden

Best Scottish Poems 2017

edited by Roddy Woomble
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Best Scottish Poems 2016

edited by Catherine Lockerbie
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Cover art by Helen Douglas

Best Scottish Poems 2015

edited by Ken MacLeod
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Cover image by Jen Hadfield

Best Scottish Poems 2014

edited by Roderick Watson
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'Put together without defence gnash teeth' collaboration between poet nick-e melville and printmaker Mark Doyle

Best Scottish Poems 2013

edited by David Robinson
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purple book cover with seaweed in mist

Best Scottish Poems 2012

edited by Zoë Strachan & Louise Welsh
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Martin O’Donnell’s Boat, by Alice Myers

Best Scottish Poems 2011

edited by Roddy Lumsden
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'Stormy Day 1' by Catriona Taylor

Best Scottish Poems 2010

edited by Jen Hadfield
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