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Language: Scots

William Nicholson

{ Poet }

Known as the Bard of Galloway, William Nicholson was a native of Borgue in Kirkcudbrightshire. He was a packman poet who travelled south-west Scotland, selling his wares and singing and reciting his poetry, his best-known piece being 'The Brownie of Blednoch'. 

Liz Niven

{ Poet }

Liz Niven is a poet, editor and writer who has worked to support the use of the Scots language in education and in creative writing.

Carolina Oliphant

{ Poet }

Scotland’s greatest songstress, Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, was the author of many beautiful songs often today thought of as traditional.

William Oliphant

{ Poet }

William Oliphant was a Glasgow poet whose work featured on the radio, and in anthologies and magazines during the 1980s and 90s.

Janet Paisley

{ Poet }

Janet Paisley was a poet, novelist, playwright and writer for television and radio who promoted the Scots Language.

Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poet }

Stuart A. Paterson is a Scottish poet and performer, who was appointed the Scots Language Centre's Virtual Poet in Residence 2015-2016.

Walter Perrie

{ Poet }

Publisher, editor and poet Walter Perrie was born in Lanarkshire and now lives and works in Perthshire.

David Purdie

{ Poet }

David Purdie was a joiner and insurance agent who wrote and translated poetry into Scots.

David Purves

{ Poet }

David Purves was a playwright, poet, editor, and champion of the Scots language.

Lydia Robb

{ Poet }

Lydia Robb was born and educated in Arbroath, and much of her writing has been inspired by the Angus countryside; she writes poetry and short stories in both Scots and English.

Gary Robertson

{ Poet }

Born in 1967, Gary Robertson has lived and worked in Dundee all of his life.

J. Logie Robertson

{ Poet }

The author of the popular 'Hughies' – versions in Scots of the odes of Horace, published under the pen-name Hugh Haliburton – J. Logie Robertson was an Edinburgh schoolmaster and writer on Scottish literature and culture.

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