Online guide to Scottish Poets

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...

Rab Wilsonb.1960

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

Robin Lindsay Wilson

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

Ross Wilsonb.1978

Ross Wilson is a poet and lyricist from Fife.

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!).

Dawn Woodb.1963

Dawn Wood is an artist, poet and hypnotherapist.

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...

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.

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.