Online guide to Scottish Poets

Pam Beasant

Pam Beasant was born in Glasgow, educated at Oxford University, and moved to Orkney in 1986.

Stan Bell1928 - 2017

Poet, mural and relief artist, Stan Bell was born and lived in Glasgow.

Tessa Berring

Tessa Berring is an artist and writer based in Edinburgh.

David Betteridgeb.1941

Now retired, David Betteridge has taught in a variety of educational establishments, and worked as a teacher-trainer; he is a published poet and has compiled an anthology of political poetry and prose.

Norman Bissell

Norman Bissell is a poet, founder and director of Geopoetics and critic who lives on the isle of Luing.

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.

Sharon Blackb.1969

Sharon Black is a poet and editor from Glasgow. Though she now lives in the south of France she remains an active voice in the UK poetry community through publication of her own work and through her editorship of...

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 Bonar1953-2021

After working in education for 30 years, William Bonar became a full-time writer and founding 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.