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Online guide to Scottish Poets

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Welcome to our online guide to Scottish poets. Please also consult our online catalogue to explore our physical collections.

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Iùl Air-loidhne  gu Bàird na h-Alba

Fàilte dhan iùl air-loidhne againn mu Bhàird na h-Alba. ’S urrainnear cuideachd an catalog air-loidhne againn fhaicinn airson rudan a lorg anns a’ chruinneachadh fhiosaigeach againn cuideachd.

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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.
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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.
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Sheena Blackhallb.1947

Sheena Blackhall is a poet, novelist, illustrator, traditional ballad singer and storyteller in North East Scotland.
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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.
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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.
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Gavin Bowdb.1966

Gavin Bowd is a poet and lecturer with interests in modern European literature and politics. 
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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.
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F. V. Branford1892 - 1941

F. V. Branford was one of the few First World War poets to record the experience of being an aviator.
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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.
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Hilton Brown1890 - 1961

Hilton Brown, biographer, novelist and travel writer, was the creator of the daft old sheep-dog 'Glen'.
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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.
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Tom Bryanb.1950

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