Poems

Willie is a 75 years young, canny Scott's man, funny without realising it. He hails from Greenock (Renfrewshire). He began work at fifteen years old, working in the shipyards as an apprentice joiner. He still has a yearning for the swinging sixties when flower power was the vogue. The feeling of the "peace and love" era of the 1950's had a tremendous impact on Willie, which influenced the rest of his life.

He now resides in the sunnier climate of Tenerife. If he was asked to, he would say wi...