A Year Of Scottish Poems

Author : Gaby Morgan
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529008255

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A Year of Scottish Poems by Gaby Morgan Pdf

An inspiring anthology of the best of Scottish poetry to keep you company for every day of your life.A Scottish Poem for Every Day of the Year is a glorious collection of 366 poems compiled by Gaby Morgan. Reflecting the changing seasons and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar - from Burns Night to the Edinburgh Hogmanay - these poems are powerful, thoughtful, and will give you a new reason to love Scotland every day of the year.This collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry: Robert Burns, George Mackay Brown and Sir Walter Scott sit alongside Liz Lockhead, Don Paterson and Jackie Kay to deliver magic on every page that lasts a whole year!

Author : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307269713

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Scottish Poems by Gerard Carruthers Pdf

In time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns)—a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present, the only single-volume collection of Scottish poetry currently available. Scottish poetry has a long and distinguished history in three languages—English, Scots, and Gaelic—and all are well represented here. The most renowned and beloved poets—Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Muriel Spark among them—mingle with their lesser-known but equally distinctive compatriots, including many of those who have emerged from the recent Scottish poetry renaissance. The poems are organized by theme: from matters of the heart to subjects spiritual and philosophical to the poetry of place. All of the verse is marked by a characteristic energy, wit, satire, and passionate lyrical intensity, and all demonstrates the power of art that proudly emanates from, but is never limited by, the place of its birth.

Author : Gaby Morgan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781529048759

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My Heart’s in the Highlands by Gaby Morgan Pdf

My Heart’s In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious celebration of poetry and verse by the greatest classic Scottish poets, and introduced by the acclaimed poet John Glenday. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. The poems in this collection are selected by editor, Gaby Morgan. With poems from famous Scottish writers such as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Mary Queen of Scots herself there is plenty here to enjoy and inspire. The collection roams across so many aspects of Scottish life and culture; its landscape and its history, its people and its celebrations. It’s a country that has always inspired poets to write about love, nature and heritage, and to reflect on the important things of life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811206319

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Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems by Anonim Pdf

Although the number of Gaelic speakers has declined during the twentieth century, the last forty years have seen an astonishing flowering of Scottish Gaelic poetry, much of it in the modern idiom. This bilingual anthology provides a selection of the best work of poets who have contributed most to that revival--Sorely Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and Donald MacAulay.

Author : Peter Mackay,Edna Longley,Fran Brearton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139499941

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Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry by Peter Mackay,Edna Longley,Fran Brearton Pdf

The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Various
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780750992879

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The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales by Various Pdf

This enchanting collection of stories gathers together legends from across Scotland in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers. From the Spaeman's peculiar advice and a laird who is transformed into a frog, to a fugitive hiding in a dark cave and the stoor worm battling with Assipattle, this book celebrates the distinct character of Scotland's different customs, beliefs and dialects, and is a treat for all who enjoy a well-told story.

Author : Kathleen Jamie,Don Paterson,Peter Mackay
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781838852627

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The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie,Don Paterson,Peter Mackay Pdf

The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a timeless collection of Scottish poetry. It contains over three hundred poems ranging from the early medieval period to the twenty-first century, and paints a full-colour portrait of Scotland’s poetic heritage and culture. Edited and introduced by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay, and including poems by Robert Burns, Carol Ann Duffy, Sorley Maclean, Violet Jacob, William Dunbar, Meg Bateman, George Mackay Brown, Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, and many more, The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a joyous celebration of Scotland’s literary past, present and future.

Author : Douglas Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0571228380

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Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry by Douglas Dunn Pdf

During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. On its first appearance in 1992, the retrospective and organising vision of Douglas Dunn's now-classic anthology revealed a profounder level of achievement in modern Scottish poetry - whether in Scots, Gaelic or English - than had been formerly acknowledged, and introduced an entire canon of writing to a wider readership, edited with discrimination and exemplary lucidity.

Author : Gerda Stevenson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781912387786

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Quines by Gerda Stevenson Pdf

Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more – Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.

Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Scotland
ISBN : PRNC:32101068596160

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Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect by Robert Burns Pdf

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1846975158

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A Gathering by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but there are other poems that may be largely unknown that will mean a great deal to the few who are familiar with them. This anthology is a personal curation and not just a simple collection of poems. Each poem, handpicked by Alexander McCall Smith, leads the reader from one poem to the another. Intimate in tone, the editor shares the pleasure he finds in these poems through short epigraphs written for each piece.

Author : Lizzie MacGregor,Richard Holloway
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Death
ISBN : 1904598528

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Lament by Lizzie MacGregor,Richard Holloway Pdf

This restorative collection of Scottish poems will help readers and listeners to accept a loss and celebrate a life, whether at formal religious or secular ceremonies, or at quiet personal commemorative service.

Author : John Rice
Publisher : MacMillan UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : 0330440594

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Scottish Poems by John Rice Pdf

'In SCOTTISH POEMS John Rice takes us on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour, the poets of his choice a refreshing and stimulating mix of the familiar and the unexpected. The vitality and diversity of their voices (English, Scots and Gaelic, from the Borders to Shetland and the Western Isles) reflect that of the land they live in, and whet the appetite for more.' Stewart Conn, poet and playwright. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild-deer and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. Robert Burns

Author : Joseph Coelho
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786035820

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A Year of Nature Poems by Joseph Coelho Pdf

See how animals behave through the seasons, and the cycle of trees and plants, from the first blossoms of spring through to the stark winter wonderland in December. 12 inspiring poems from Joe Coelho, paired with folk art from Kelly Louise Judd give this book year-round appeal.

Author : Maurice Lindsay,Lesley Duncan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015066788566

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The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry by Maurice Lindsay,Lesley Duncan Pdf

The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.