Poetry Commissions: Walter Scott 250
Coimiseanan Bàrdachd: Walter Scott 250

The theme of our 2021 Ambassadors’ commissions is Sir Walter Scott, as we commemorate 250 years from his birth.  In addition to wonderful new writing and recordings by the chosen poets, we present two new Gaelic translations by Ian MacDonald of Scott’s poems 'Lochinvar' and “Proud Maisie”.
Scott’s biographer Stuart Kelly reflected that his work was '…full of specific place names: to a degree, he invented the idea of a poetry of place rather than a locus classicus. His poetry was swift, dangerous, uneven, sometimes ragged, suffused with a sense of the gothic and yet rooted in Augustan cadences.'
You can read more about Scott’s life and poetry at this link.
'S e Walter Scott cuspair nan coimiseanan do Thosgairean na Bàrdachd againn ann an 2021, fhad 's a chomharraicheas sinn 250 o rugadh e. A bharrachd air an sàr sgrìobhadh ùr is clàraidhean aig na bàird roghnaichte, the sinn a' cumail romhaibh dà eadar-theangachadh don Ghàidhlig le Iain MacDhòmhnaill den na dàin 'Lochinvar" is "Proud Maisie'.
  
            

                

                                                                                                                                                        
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        B' e beatha-eachdraidhe Scott, Stuart Kelly, a bheachdaich gun robh a chuid obrach '...làn ainmean-àite sònraichte: gu ìre, b' ann leis-san a bha beachd air bàrdachd de dh'àite seach locus classicus. Bha a chuid bàrdachd sgiobalta, cunnartach, corrach is, uaireannan, robach, làn de shamhail na gotaich ach freumhaichte ann an sreathan Augustanach.'
Faodaidh sibh tuilleadh de bheatha is bàrdachd Scott a leughadh tron cheangal seo.