Leet o Scots poets an makars
(Reguidit frae List o Scots poets)
Here is a leet o scottish poets an makars wha write or hae written in Scots, sangs or written poetry:
A-G
[eedit | edit 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 | edit 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 | edit soorce]| Name | Date o birth | Date o deith | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | edit 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.