A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems
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.
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A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems
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.
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A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems

A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems

A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems

A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781846975158
Publisher: Birlinn, Limited
Publication date: 06/23/2020
Edition description: New in Paperback
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty-five million copies. Since then he has devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world. These include the 44 Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in the Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series and the Corduroy Mansions novels.

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty-five million copies. Since then he has devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world. These include the 44 Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in the Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series and the Corduroy Mansions novels.

Hometown:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Date of Birth:

August 24, 1948

Place of Birth:

Zimbabwe

Website:

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/mccallsmith/index.html

Table of Contents

Introduction Alexander McCall Smith xi

Love & Marriage

Some Ghaists Haunt Hooses Kate Y.A. Bone 3

True ways of knowing Norman MacCaig 6

Incident Norman MacCaig 7

To a Lady William Dunbar 8

Mary's Song Marion Angus 9

One Cigarette Edwin Morgan 10

Strawberries Edwin Morgan 11

The Shadows Iain Crichton Smith 13

A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns 15

Tràighean/Shores Somhairle MacGill-Eain Sorley MacLean 16 / 17

Watching You Walk Ruthven Todd 20

'I will make you brooches and toys for your delight' Robert Louis Stevenson 22

Sonnet Mary, Queen of Scots 23

Poems of Place

'Scotland small?' Hugh MacDiarmid 28

Scotland Alastair Reid 29

Scotland Sir Alexander Gray 30

In Edinburgh 1940 Ruthven Todd 33

Did You See Me? Robert Garioch 39

Glisk of the Great Robert Garioch 41

In Princes Street Gairdens Robert Garioch 42

Christmas snow in Princes Street Norman MacCaig 43

King Billy Edwin Morgan 47

The Starlings in George Square Edwin Morgan 49

From Auld Reekie Robert Fergusson 52

In Honour of the City of London William Dunbar 54

The Night City W. S. Graham 57

The Freedom Come-All-Ye Hamish Henderson 59

Islands

Island Funeral Hugh MacDiarmid 63

Beachcomber George Mackay Brown 65

Hamnavoe George Mackay Brown 67

Nocturne Lewis Tessa Ransford 70

An Roghainn/The Choice Somhairle MacGill-Eain Sorley MacLean 72 / 73

Hallaig Somhairle MacGill-Eain Sorley MacLean 76 / 77

Shetland and Ponies George Bruce 82

Voyage We to Islands George Bruce 84

An Island and Seals George Bruce 85

Bloody Orkney Hamish Blair 87

Childhood

Looking Forward Robert Louis Stevenson 93

The Whole Duty of Children Robert Louis Stevenson 94

The Lamplighter Robert Louis Stevenson 95

Winter's Awa William Soutar 96

Childhood Edwin Muir 97

Child on the Beach George Bruce 99

The Child and the Sea George Bruce 100

Boys Among Rock Pools George Bruce 102

Countryside & Animals

Proud Maisie Sir Walter Scott 105

To a Mouse Robert Burns 109

The Two Mice Robert Henryson 112

Propinquity Alastair Reid 122

On a Cat, Ageing Sir Alexander Gray 124

The Wild Geese Violet Jacob 126

Toad Norman MacCaig 127

Basking shark Norman MacCaig 128

The Twa Corbies Anon 129

Molecatcher Albert Mackie 130

The Hill Burns Nan Shepherd 131

Loch Avon Nan Shepherd 134

Summit of Corrie Etchachan Nan Shepherd 135

Birth, Joy, Life

A New Child ECL George Mackay Brown 139

To the Future William Soutar 142

Lily of Raasay Tessa Ransford 144

For My Newborn Son Sydney Goodsir Smith 146

At First, My Daughter Elma Mitchell 147

Mother, Dear Mother Elma Mitchell 148

Invocation Kathleen Raine 149

Daedalus Alastair Reid 152

From A Bard's Address to His Youngest Daughter James Hogg 154

Personal History Ruthven Todd 156

War, Conflict & Loss

Memorial Norman MacCaig 164

From Elegy of Jean Calvin George Buchanan 165

The Heart Could Never Speak Edwin Muir 166

Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson 167

The Flyting o' Life and Daith Hamish Henderson 168

The 51st Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily Hamish Henderson 170

So Long Hamish Henderson 172

Seventh Elegy Hamish Henderson 174

On Looking at the Dead Iain Crichton Smith 178

The Transmutation Edwin Muir 181

The Brig Violet Jacob 182

Departure and Departure and… George Bruce 184

At My Father's Grave Hugh MacDiarmid 185

The Horses Edwin Muir 186

From the Line Roderick Watson Kerr 188

Curaidhean/Heroes Somhairle MacGill-Eain Sorley MacLean 190 / 191

Latha Foghair / An Autumn Day Somhairle MacGill-Eain Sorley MacLean 194 / 195

Green Boughs Naomi Mitchison 198

The Mother Joseph Lee 199

The Permanence of the Young Man William Soutar 200

Final Poems & What They Mean to Me

A Man's a Man For A'That Robert Burns 203

At Robert Fergusson's Grave Robert Garioch 206

For Willie Soutar Douglas Young 208

In September 1937 Ruthven Todd 210

Going Up to Sotheby's Muriel Spark 212

The Clearances Iain Crichton Smith 215

Macpherson's Rant Anon 216

The Flowers of the Forest Jean Eliot 218

Biographical notes 221

Acknowledgements 235

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