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Poetry Competition checklist

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A checklist to help you organise a poetry competition.

Poetry links

{ Learning Resource }

A curated list of hyperlinks to literature and poetry related places.

The Prows o’ Reekie - by Lewis Spence

{ Poem }

O wad this braw hie-heapit toun Sail aff like an enchanted ship, Drift owre the warld’s seas up and doun, And kiss wi’ Venice lip to lip, Or anchor into Naples’ Bay A misty island far astray Or set her rock to Athens’ wa’, Pillar to pillar, stane to stane, The cruikit spell o’ her […]

A Woman in the Street - by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

{ Poem }

O bonnie lad wi’ the kilt sae braw
An’ tossel’t sporran swingin’ –
Wi’ dirk at the hip, an’ ribbons rid;
Ye set my hert a-singin’.

Scots Learning Centre

{ Learning Resource }

These resources support Curriculum of Excellence as well as N4/N5/H English and the Scots Language Award, and include interactive games/reading exercises on ‘Shetlan’ by John Peterson as well as Burns’ ‘Tam O’Shanter’ and ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’.

The Kist / A’Chiste

{ Learning Resource }

The Kist / A’Chiste provides a selection of Scots and Gaelic texts carefully chosen to meet the needs of the language work in the 5-14 curriculum and beyond. This anthology contains 160 pages of poetry, prose and drama.

Trio by Edwin Morgan Teaching Notes

{ Learning Resource }

Our notes for this set text should help teachers and students alike.

Good Friday by Edwin Morgan Teaching Notes

{ Learning Resource }

Our notes for this set text should help teachers and students alike.

Mother - by Neil Munro

{ Poem }

Ye were ay a rowdy laddie, Jock,
Since ever ye cam hame,
Unco ill to bed at night,
And dour to wash and kaim.

Jock, to the First Army - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

O Rab an’ Dave an’ rantin’ Jim,
The geans were turnin’ reid
When Scotland saw yer line grow dim,
Wi’ the pipers at its heid…

Dr Wha Teaching Notes

{ Learning Resource }

Find our teaching notes for Dr Wha, one of our National Poetry Day 2018 poems, here.

11:00: Baldovan - by Don Paterson

{ Poem }

Base Camp. Horizontal sleet. Two small boys
have raised the steel flag of the 20 terminus:

me and Ross Mudie are going up the Hilltown
for the first time ever on our own.

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