Online guide to Scottish Poets

Laura Tansleyb.1984

Laura Tansley is a writer and tutor originally from the West Midlands, but now living in Glasgow.

Judith Taylor

Judith Taylor has been a librarian and now works in IT; she has published two pamphlet and one full-length collection of poetry.

Ruaraidh MacThòmais
Derick Thomson1921 - 2012

No Gaelic poet has had more influence on the generation that followed him than Derick Thomson. As poet, publisher, and editor of the literary quarterly Gairm, Thomson shaped the development of Gaelic writing in the post-war period.

Ruthven Todd1914 - 1978

Born in Edinburgh, Ruthven Todd spent most of his colourful life outwith Scotland: in London, the USA and Spain. He was an artist, amateur botanist and novelist, but is best known as a poet and writer of children’s books.

Samuel Tongueb.1981

Samuel Tongue is a widely-published poet and poetry editor of the Glasgow Review of Books.

Sydney Tremayne1912 - 1986

Sydney Tremayne was an Ayrshire-born Scotsman whose working life was spent in England as a journalist, largely in London as a newspaperman in hectic Fleet Street, though his poetry often reflects quietly upon the complexities of the natural world.

Gael Turnbull1928 - 2004

Gael Turnbull was a poet and medical practitioner whose work ranged from prose poetry and collage poems to inventive ‘poem-objects’, all expressing a ‘delight in language and in the possibilities of utterance’.

W. Price Turner1927 - 1998

Later in his career he wrote simply as Bill Turner, but that was long after he took the DIY approach to starting his own poetry magazine as a young man in post-war Glasgow.

Joan Ure1918 - 1978

The work of the playwright and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Joan Ure was little recognised in her lifetime, though she brought her unique perspective to many pressing and contemporary issues in her poems.

Lynn Valentine

Lynn Valentine lives on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands.

Ryan Van Winkleb. 1977

Ryan Van Winkle, a practiced podcaster who produced podcasts for the SPL for seven years, is a member of Highlight Arts and has organized festivals and translation workshops in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq.

Raymond Vetteseb.1950

Raymond Vettese was born in Abroath, educated at Montrose Academy, and has two collections of poetry written in Scots.