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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.

Gaelic

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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John Wilson1720 - 1789

John Wilson was born on the Corehouse estate in Lanarkshire. As a young man he worked as a schoolmaster locally, but by 1767, with a wife and children to support, he was obliged to take up a teaching position...
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Rab Wilsonb.1960

Rab Wilson is a poet and Scots language activist from Ayrshire.
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Robin Lindsay Wilson

Australian-born Robin Lindsay Wilson has lived in Scotland for many years. He has published two collections of poetry.
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Ross Wilsonb.1978

Ross Wilson is a poet and lyricist from Fife.
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Walter Wingate1865 - 1918

Poet and schoolmaster, Walter Wingate was the author of 'The Sair Finger', the much-loved recitation piece about the wean with the skelf in his pinkie (child with a splinter in his little finger!).
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Dawn Woodb.1963

Dawn Wood is an artist, poet and hypnotherapist.
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Heather H. Yeungb. 1984

Heather H. Yeung (楊希蒂) is a poet, visual artist, book maker and performer. Most of her work includes poetic text in some form, but this characteristically migrates between media and practices, from hand-made artist books to installations, prints and...
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Andrew Young1885 - 1971

Andrew Young was born in Elgin. His life after1920 was spent in Sussex, but his landscape poetry often returns to Scottish locations.
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Douglas Young1913 - 1973

Douglas Young, poet and essayist, was a colourful figure of the Scottish Renaissance, a member of the young Scottish National Party, and was imprisoned for refusing conscription in 1942. He had an international reputation as a scholar of Greek.
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