Online guide to Scottish Poets

Norman Bissell

Norman Bissell writes poetry, essays and reviews which have been widely published in literary journals, books and newspapers and he is also an experienced teacher and lecturer.

D. M. Blackb.1941

D. M. Black's poetry publications span six decades. He was brought up in St Andrews, and now works as a psychoanalyst in London.

Sheena Blackhallb.1947

Sheena Blackhall is a poet, novelist, illustrator, traditional ballad singer and storyteller in North East Scotland.

Alan Bold1943 - 1998

Alan Bold was a poet, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his award-winning biography of Hugh MacDiarmid, with whom he had a long-standing friendship.

William Bonar

Recently retired after working in education for 30 years, William Bonar is now a full-time writer. He is a founder member of St Mungo’s Mirrorball, Glasgow’s network of poets and lovers of poetry.

Gavin Bowdb.1966

Gavin Bowd is a poet and lecturer with interests in modern European literature and politics. 

Archibald Allan Bowman1883 - 1936

A. A. Bowman was a philosopher, Professor at Princeton and Glasgow Universities, an advocate of the League of Nations, and author of a series of poems written during incarceration as a prisoner of War in 1918.

F. V. Branford1892 - 1941

F. V. Branford was one of the few First World War poets to record the experience of being an aviator.

George Mackay Brown1921 - 1996

George Mackay Brown found his inspiration in the eternal cycle of life, and the 'ceremonies of fishing and agriculture' on Orkney.

Hilton Brown1890 - 1961

Hilton Brown, biographer, novelist and travel writer, was the creator of the daft old sheep-dog 'Glen'.

George Bruce1909 - 2002

A ground-breaking radio and television arts producer, George Bruce was a poet whose spare poems, wrought with precision, echoed the landscape and character of his native north Aberdeenshire.

Tom Bryanb.1950

Tom Bryan was born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1950, but has been long resident in Scotland, his mother’s country.