Leet o Scots poets an makars
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Here is a leet o scottish poets an makars wha write or hae written in Scots, sangs or written poetry:
A-G
[eedit | eedit soorce]- John Barbour
- Sheena Blackhall
- Robert Burns
- Gavin Douglas
- William Drummond o Hawthornden
- William Dunbar
- Robert Fergusson
- Jenni Fagan[1]
- Robert Garioch
H-N
[eedit | eedit soorce]- George Campbell Hay
- Hamish Henderson
- Robert Henryson
- Richard Holland
- Kathleen Jamie
- Liz Lochhead
- David Lyndsay
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Richard Maitland
- Alexander Montgomerie
- Edwin Morgan
- William Neill (poet)
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Chronological leet
[eedit | eedit soorce]Name | Date o birth | Date o deith | Location | Notes |
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Robert Burns | 1759-01-25 | 1796-07-21 | Ayrshire | |
Allan Ramsay | 1686-10-15 | 1758-01-07 | Lanarkshire | |
Olive Fraser | 1909-01-20 | 1977-12-09 | Aberdeen | |
William Neill | 1922-02-22 | 2010-04-05 | Ayrshire | |
Mary Symon | 1863-09-25 | 1938-05-27 | Dufftown, Moray | |
John Barbour | 1320 | 1395-03-13 | ||
Sheena Blackhall | 1947 | Aberdeenshire | ||
Gavin Douglas | 1474 | 1522-09 | ||
William Drummond o Hawthornden | 1585-12-15 | 1649-12-04 | ||
William Dunbar | 1460 | 1530 | ||
Robert Fergusson | 1750-09-05 | 1774-10-16 | ||
Jenni Fagan | 1977-09 | Livingston | ||
Robert Garioch | 1909-05-09 | 1981-04-26 | Edinburgh | |
George Campbell Hay | 1915 | 1984 | Elderslie, Renfrewshire | |
Hamish Henderson | 1919-11-11 | 2002-03-09 | ||
Robert Henryson | 1460 (approx) | 1500 (approx) | ||
Richard Holland | 1483 | |||
Kathleen Jamie | 1962-05-13 | |||
Liz Lochhead | 1947-12-26 | |||
David Lyndsay | 1490 | 1555 | ||
Hugh MacDiarmid | 1892-08-11 | 1978-09-09 | Langholm, Dumfriesshire | |
Richard Maitland | 1496 | 1586-08-01 | ||
Marie Maitland | 1550 | 1596 | ||
Alexander Montgomerie | 1550? | 1598 | Ayrshire | |
Edwin Morgan | 1920-04-27 | 2010-08-19 | ||
Len Pennie | 1999 | |||
Alexander Scott (20t century) | 1920 | 1989 | Aberdeen | |
Sydney Goodsir Smith | 1915-10-26 | 1975-01-15 | ||
William Soutar | 1898-04-28 | 1943-10-15 | Perthshire | |
Rev. John Skinner | 1744-05-17 | 1816-07-13 | Longside, Aberdeenshire | |
Isobel Pagan | 1740 | 1821 | Ayrshire | |
David Sillar | 1760 | 1830 | ||
William Simson | 1799 | 1847-08-29 | ||
William Hamilton | 1704 | 1754 | ||
Jean Glover | 1758 | 1801 | Townhead, Kilmarnock | |
James Hogg | 1770-12-09 | 1835-11-21 | Ettrick | |
James Logie Robertson | 1846-09-18 | 1922 | ||
Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-11-13 | 1894-12-03 | ||
William A. M. Forbes | 1661 | 1740 | Disblair, Aberdeenshire | |
Cecil Frances Alexander | 1818-04 | 1895-10-12 | Dublin, Ireland | |
George Outram | 1805-03-25 | 1856-09-15 | ||
Janet Hamilton | 1795-10-12 | 1873-10-27 | ||
Alexander MacLagan | Bridgend, Perth | Writer of "Poems and Songs: Scotch and English" (1841) | ||
William Laidlaw | 1780 | 1845 | ||
William Fergusson | 1808-03-20 | 1877-02-10 | ||
Lady Anne Barnard | 1750-12-08 | 1825-05-06 | ||
William Edmondstoune Aytoun | 1813-06-13 | 1865-08-04 | ||
Dugald Buchanan | 1716 | 1768 | ||
William Air Foster | 1802 | |||
John Mitchell | 1815 | Author of "My Grey Goose Quill" (1851) and "A Night on the Banks of Doon" (1838) | ||
John Crawford | 1816 | Author of "Doric Lays" (1850) | ||
Thomas C. Latto | 1818-12-01 | |||
William Kersley Holmes | 1882 | 1966 | ||
Alexander Boswell | 1775-10-09 | 1822-03-27 | ||
John Buchan | 1875-08-26 | 1940-02-11 | ||
Violet Jacob | 1863-09-01 | 1946-09-09 | ||
William Hershaw | 1957-03-19 | |||
Peter Buchan | 1917 | 1991 | ||
Marion Angus | 1865-03-27 | 1946-08-18 | ||
James A. Begg | 1940 | |||
Tom Hubbard | 1950 | Kirkcaldy | ||
John Reid | 1910 | |||
Isobel Grant Stewart | 1949 | |||
Gordon Geddes | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |||
Peter Mitchell McCulloch | 21c | |||
William Barr | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |||
Agnes Hall | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |||
John Smellie Martin | Author of "Scottish Earth" (1923) and "Burn Water. Poems in English and Scots" (1939) | |||
Albert David MacKie | 1904 | 1985 | Journalist, poet and playwright, also wrote topical comic verse under the pseudonym 'macNib'. Author of "Poems in Two Tongues" (1928) | |
G. M. Cardow | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |||
Neil McCallum | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |||
E. H. M. Georgeson | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |||
G. J. Milne | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |||
John Clark Milne | 1897 | 1962 | Aberdeenshire | Author o "The Orra Loon" (1946) |
Edith Anne Robertson | 1883-01-10 | 1973-01-31 | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |
A. C. Cameron | Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951) | |||
Brian Whyte | Cowdenbeath / Aberdeen / Perth | 21c | ||
Rab Wilson | 1960 | New Cumnock | 21c | |
Hazel Parkins | Orkney | 21c | ||
Stuart A. Paterson | 1966 | 21c | ||
John Waddell | 1920 | 21c | ||
Margaret Grant | 21c | |||
Mark Thomson | 21c | |||
Edward F. H. Chisnall | 1941 | 21c | ||
Harry Josephine Giles | 1986 | Author o "Deep Wheel Orcadia " (2021) | 21c | |
David Purves | 1924-04-09 | 2015-01-03 | Author o "Thrawart Threipins" (1976) and "Herts Bluid" (1995) | |
Elaine Morton | 21c | |||
Christine De Luca | Shetland | 21c | ||
Stephen Dornan | 21c - Ulster-Scots and Doric | |||
Philip Robinson | 21c - Ulster Scots | |||
Hugh McMillan | 1955-03-26 | 21c | ||
Keeks Mc | 21c - Glasgow | |||
Roy Ferguson | 21c - Ulster-Scots | |||
Fiona McDonald | 21c - Ulster-Scots | |||
Matthew Fitt | 1968 | 21c | ||
Sara Clark | 21c | |||
Wilson Burgess | 21c - Ulster-Scots | |||
James Thompson | 21c | |||
John McPartlin | 21c | |||
Barbara Johnston | 21c | |||
John McDonald | 21c | |||
James Fenton | 1931-06-05 | 2021-02-03 | Ulster-Scots | |
Vera Butler | 1962 | 21c - Orkney | ||
Alistair Lawrie | 21c | |||
Glenn Muir | 21c | |||
Angus Shoor Caan | 21c | |||
Kevin Cormack | 21c | |||
Lesley Benzie | 21c | |||
Michael Dempster | 21c | |||
Liz Niven | 1952 | 21c | ||
Gerda Stevenson | 1956-04-10 | 21c | ||
Robert Campbell | 21c | |||
Harold Morrison Murray | 21c | |||
Hugh S. Pyper | 21c | |||
Roger McKillop | 21c | |||
Shane Strachan | 21c | |||
Lorraine Bruce | 21c | |||
Donald Adamson | 21c | |||
Ingrid Grieve | 21c | |||
Derrick J. McClure | 1944 | 21c | ||
Sheila Garson | 21c | |||
Jim Mackintosh | 21c | |||
David C. Purdie | 1940 | 21c | ||
Brian Holton | 1949-07-11 | 21c | ||
Bill Thom | 21c | |||
Robert Alan Jamieson | 1958 | 21c | ||
Matt Lehane | 21c | |||
Tracy Anne Harvey | 21c | |||
David Douglas | 21c | |||
Greer Norquoy | 21c | |||
Douglas Curran | 21c | |||
Frances Robson | 21c | |||
Raymond Vettese | 1950 | 21c | ||
Kenny Stewart | 21c | |||
Betty Tindal | 21c | |||
Charlie McDonald | 21c | |||
Phyllis J. Goodall | 21c | |||
Issy Grieve | 21c | |||
George T. Watt | 21c | |||
Lorna Wallace | 21c | |||
Gavin Sprott | 21c | |||
Josie Neill | 1935 | Author of "There's Ma Mammy Wavin" (2021) | ||
Thomas Clark | 21c | |||
Bob Calder | 21c | |||
Hugh Bryden | 1950 | |||
Sam Gilliland | 1939 | |||
Douglas Kynoch | 1938 | |||
Alison Miller | 21c | |||
Morag MacInnes | 21c - Orkney | |||
John Manson | 21c | |||
Paolo Dante | 21c | |||
Pat McCrory | 21c | |||
Jo Gilbert | 21c - Doric | |||
Gordon Jarvie | 21c | |||
Derek Ross | 21c | |||
Stuart McHardy | 1947 | 21c - Dundee | ||
Andrew Philip | 21c | |||
Sandy Fleemin | 21c | |||
Christie Williamson | 21c | |||
Mae Diansangu | 21c | |||
James Sinclair | 21c | |||
John Burns | 21c | |||
Susi Briggs | 21c | |||
Mark Thompson | 21c | |||
John M Tait | 21c | |||
George Hardie | 21c | |||
Peter Cameron | 21c | |||
Walter Perrie | 21c | |||
Charles Gillen | 1951 | 21c - Ulster Scots | ||
Brent Hodgson | 1945 | 21c | ||
William Letford | 21c | |||
Aitken Fyall | 21c | |||
Neil Bratchpiece | 21c | |||
Ann MacKinnon | 21c | |||
Ghillie Foyle | 21c | |||
Hannah Nicholson | 21c | |||
Roseanne Watt | 21c | |||
Kathryn Sclater | 21c | |||
James Nicholson | 21c | |||
Susan Rennie | 21c | |||
Donald Goodbrand Saunders | 21c | |||
Victoria McNulty | 21c | |||
J. Barrie Shepherd | 21c | |||
Fran Flett Hollinrake | 21c | |||
Ruth Tait | 21c | |||
Catherine Eunson | 21c | |||
Edith Harper | 21c | |||
Hilary Christie | 21c | |||
Adeline Reid | 21c | |||
Ingrid Leonard | 21c | |||
Bessie Skea | 21c | |||
Reyzl Grace | 21c | |||
Del Stewart | 21c | |||
Pete Coutts | 21c | |||
Gregor Steele | 21c | |||
John Drosten | 21c | |||
James Robertson | 21c | |||
Mary McCabe | 21c | |||
Ann Matheson | 21c | |||
Hamish Scott | 21c | |||
Sheila Templeton | 21c | |||
Gary Robertson | 21c | |||
John Milligan | 21c | |||
Faith Liddell | 21c | |||
Jim Mainland | 21c | |||
Henry Chapman | 21c | |||
David Hume | 21c | |||
Colin Bramwell | 21c | |||
Rowena M. Love | 21c | |||
Bob Peffers | 21c | |||
Brian Noble | 21c | |||
Angeline King | 21c | |||
Lise Sinclair | 21c | |||
Aimee Chalmers | 21c | |||
Gordon Donaldson | 21c | |||
Alan McCabe | 21c | |||
Douglas MacKenzie | 21c | |||
Joe McGibbon | 21c | |||
Stella Sutherland | 21c | |||
Charles Lang | 21c | |||
Moyra Brown | 21c | |||
Colin Scott | 21c | |||
Albert Kirk Jn | 21c | |||
Mary Johnston | 21c | |||
John Bolland | 21c | |||
Paolo Ritch | 21c | |||
Anja Hall | 21c | |||
Dave Wilkie | 21c | |||
Courtney Peace | 21c | |||
Lucy Wilson | 21c | |||
Stephen Pacitti | 21c | |||
Andrew McNeil | 21c | |||
Derek Smith | 21c | |||
Darren Gibson | 21c | |||
Robert Duncan | 21c | |||
Chloe Irvine | 21c | |||
Christina Faffe | 21c | |||
Laureen Johnson | 21c | |||
W. F. Robertson | 21c | |||
Kathleen Gray | 21c | |||
George Philip | 21c | |||
Jacqueline Jay Wilde | 21c | |||
Alison Flett | 21c | |||
William Landles | 21c | |||
Laurence Graham | 21c | |||
Hannah Havery | 21c | |||
Mavis Duncan Beckett | 21c | |||
Lorraine McBeath | 21c | |||
Andrew McCallum | 21c | |||
Nat Hall | 21c | |||
Alison C. Skinner | 21c | |||
Wendy Hanna | 21c | |||
Alistair McDonald | 21c | |||
Lydia Robb | 21c | |||
Campbell Murray | 21c | |||
Christian Tait | 21c | |||
Finola Scott | 21c | |||
Caroline Hume | 21c | |||
Barbara West | 21c | |||
Alan McClure | 21c | |||
Marlene Mainland | 21c | |||
Al Millar | 21c | |||
Miriam Sulhunt | 21c | |||
Liam Cormack | 21c | |||
Rob McClure | 21c | |||
Craig Aitchison | 21c | |||
Paul Nicol | 21c | |||
Ian Nimmo White | 21c | |||
William Drennan | 21c | |||
Fiona A Cowan | 21c | |||
Lynn Valentine | 21c | |||
John Imlah | 1799 | 1846 | Author of "May Flowers" (1827) and Poems and Songs (1841) | |
John Singer | Author of "Hamespun Rhymes Frae the Spinnin Jenny" (1896) | |||
Daniel McIntyre Henderson | Author of "A bit bookie of verse in the English and Scots tongues" (1905) | |||
Hugh MacDonald | 1817 | 1860 | ||
Jessie Annie Anderson | Early 20c | |||
Robert Bain | Early 20c | |||
George Douglas Brown | 1869 | 1902 | ||
John Brown | Early 20c | |||
John Buchanan | Glasgow | Early 20c | ||
J. M. Bulloch | Aberdeen | Early 20c | ||
T. S. Cairncross | Lesmahagow | Early 20c - Author o "The Scot at Hame" (1922) | ||
William Dixon Cocker | 1882 | 1970 | ||
Ian D. Colvin | 1877-09-29 | 1938-05-10 | Inverness | |
A. B. Corder | 1858 | 1919 | ||
Lewis Coutts | Ellon, Aberdeenshire | Early 20c | ||
D. H. Crawford | Ayr | Early 20c | ||
Andrew Dodds | Midlothian | Author of "The Lothian Land" (1917) | ||
Sir George Brisbane Scott-Douglas | 1856-12-22 | 1935-06-22 | ||
John F. Fergus MD | Glasgow | Early 20c | ||
J. A. Ferguson | Callander | Early 20c | ||
Alexander Gray | Forfarshire | Early 20c | ||
Agnes B. Harvey | Glasgow | Early 20c | ||
Thomas Henderson | Early 20c | |||
Hamish Hendry | Alloa, Clackmannanshire | Early 20c | ||
John Horne | Early 20c | |||
Isobel W. Hutchison | Kirkliston, West Lothian | Early 20c | ||
C. J. Kirk | Dumbarton | Author of "Clyde Ballads" (1910) | ||
James Pittendrigh MacGillivray | Aberdeenshire | Early 20c | ||
R. J. MacLennan | Aberdeen | Editor of The Glasgow Evening News, Early 20c | ||
Barbara Ross M'Intosh | Author of "Scent o' the Broom" (1923) | |||
Dan M'Kenzie | Larkhall | Author o "Pride o' Raploch" (1920) | ||
Murray McCabe | Edinburgh | Uised nom de plume "Sanny McNee", Early 20c | ||
T. McWilliam | Foveran, Aberdeenshire | Author o' "The Passing Days and Other Verses" (1917) | ||
George Murray | Dalmellington, Ayrshire | Nom de plume "Milreoch", Early 20c | ||
A. Muir | Early 20c | |||
Neil Munro | Early 20c | |||
Charles Murray | 1864-09-27 | 1941-04-12 | ||
Janetta I. W. Murray | 1922 | 1952 | Early 20c | |
William Henry Ogilvie | 1869-08-21 | 1963-01-30 | ||
Tinsley Pratt | Early 20c | |||
Gilbert Rae | Biggar, Lanarkshire | Early 20c | ||
Stewart A. Robertson | 1866 | 1933 | Midlothian | Author o "A Moray Loon" (1933) |
David Rorie | 1867 | 1946-02-18 | Early 20c | |
Arthur Guthrie | 1854 | 1914 | Uised nom de plume "Anthony Rowley" | |
A. Boyd Scott | Author o' "Lays of the Old Clyde Shores" (1924) | |||
Harry Smith | Aberdeen | Early 20c | ||
Mrs George Smith | Early 20c | |||
J. E. Stewart | 1917 | Early 20c | ||
George P. Dunbar | Aberdeenshire | Uised nom de plume "Stoneywood" - Published "A Whiff O' the Doric" (1922) and "A Guff o' Peat Reek" (1920) | ||
Alec Wilson | 1909 | Galloway | Early 20c | |
J. K. Annand | 1908-02-02 | 1993-06-08 | Edinburgh | |
Anna Gordon | 1747 | 1810 | Mrs Brown of Falkland | |
Mary MacQueen | 1786 | 1854 | Mrs Storie | |
Bell Robertson | 1841 | 1922 | New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire | 19c? |
Mrs Margaret Gillespie | 1831 | 1913 | ||
Jeannie Robertson | 1908 | 1975 | Aberdeenshire | |
Lizzie Higgins | 1929-09-20 | 1993-02-20 | Aberdeenshire | |
Elizabeth Melville | 1599 | 1631 | ||
David Bleiman | 21c | |||
J. M. Caie | 1878-08-20 | 1949-12-22 | ||
David Shaw | 1786 | 1856 | Forfar, Angus | Author of "Humourous songs" (1821) |
David Vedder | 1790 | 1854 | Author of "Poems, legendary, lyrical, and descriptive" (1842) | |
Hew Ainslie | 1792 | 1878 | Author o "Scottish songs, ballads and poems" (1855) |
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References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Jenni Fagan - Poet". Scottish Poetry Library (in Inglis). Retrieved 23 Januar 2024.
- ↑ "Symon, Mary (1863–1938), poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (in Inglis). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-60934. Retrieved 23 Januar 2024.