Full Description
Selected for the pleasure and interest they offer these 400 or so poems from more than 150 poets span the entire century. While the major figures - MacDiarmid pre-eminently, and others such as Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, and George Mackay Brown - are generously represented, there are many other voices, from the master balladeer of the Yukon, Robert Service, to the internationally-known psychiatrist R D Laing, the distinguished economist Sir Alec Cairncross, and the troubled but deeply eloquent Rayne Mackinnon. Women are given due prominence. Readers unfamiliar with Helen Adam will experience a frisson at the sexual tensions of her ballad-poems while Naomi Mitchison reveals her intimate self. The admirable Marion Angus, Violet Jacob, and Helen B Cruickshank show their talents, while contemporary poets Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Janet Paisley, Jackie Kay, and many others, are well represented. In a century of unprecedented change, the poems also act as a commentary on their times - and Scotland's war poets such as Charles Hamilton Sorley and Hamish Henderson, with their anger and eloquence, are included.
With its lively engagement with the real world as well as the world of private creativity, this anthology will contribute to an ongoing sense of Scottish cultural identity. Key Features * Includes more than 400 poems (compared to the 300 in the Faber volume) * Represents more than 150 poets (compared to the 70 or so in the Faber volume) * EUP's anthology spans the entire C20th century (while the Faber volume was published in the early 1990s) * The EUP volume includes more women poets than the Faber volume * The EUP volume is alphabetically arranged for ease of use (compared to the chronological arrangement of the Faber volume) * The EUP anthology includes biographjcal notes on each of the poets (which the Faber volume does not have)
Contents
Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Helen Adam; Song for a Sea Tower; I Love My Love; Margot Robert Adamson; Edinburgh; James Aitchison; The Inheritance; Dipper Territory; Landscape with Lapwings; Marion Angus; Alas! Poor Queen; The Fiddler; Anemones; Mary's Song; The Doors of Sleep; J. K. Annand; Arctic Convoy; Fur Coats; Mountain Pule; Meg Bateman; Aotromachd / Lightness; Fhir luraich 's fhir alainn / O Bonnie Man, Lovely Man; D. M. Black; The Educators; The Water-Lily; Sheena Blackhall; Doric's No Dodo ...; The Spik o' the Lan; Walk On; Captain Hamish Blair; The Bloody Orkneys; Alan Bold; Shore; from Edinburgh Castle; Deric Bolton; Schiehallion; What Might Have Been; Kate Y. A. Bone; Corners; Catlike; James Bridie (O. H. Mavor); The West End Perk; George Mackay Brown; Ikey: His Will in Winter Written; Hamnavoe; The Lodging; The Mother; The Old Women; Hamish Brown; A Salting of Snow; Dogs; Counting Sheep; Margaret Gillies Brown; Village Woman; Calgary Bay; George Bruce; A Gateway to the Sea ( ); Love in Age; Inheritance; Kinnaird Head; Departure and Departure ...; Soup and Sherry; Tom Bryan; Planting Potatoes during Chernobyl; John Buchan; from Alastair Buchan ( ); Fisher Jamie; Tom Buchan; The Everlasting Astronauts; Scotland the Wee; Elizabeth Burns; Jesus Speaks to the Church at Eastertime; Ophelia; John Burnside; Tundra's Edge; Lost; Out of Exile; Anstruther; Ron Butlin; Advertisement for a Scottish Servant; The Bath; John M. Caie; The Puddock; Janet Caird; John Donne, You Were Wrong ...; Emigrants; Angus Calder; Greeting, Not Greeting; Curling: Old Murrayfield Ice Rink; October Opera for Kate; Robert B. Calder; Love in the Abstract; Sir Alec Cairncross; Covenanting Country; Munich; Gerry Cambridge; The Drunken Lyricist; Shore Crab; Fallen Maple Leaves; Foxgloves; Kate Clanchy; Mitigation; We Have Some Urgent Messages; Men From the Boys; Timetable; W. D. Cocker; The Deluge; Stewart Conn; Stolen Light; Todd; First Light; James Copeland; The Bayonet; Ed; Robert Crawford; Sobieski-Stuarts; Scotch Broth; Helen B. Cruikshank; Comfort in Puirtith; The Wishin' Well; Sae Lang Has Sorrow; Fate; Shy Geordie; Jenni Daiches; Horse in Glasgow; Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt; Geometry; John Davidson; Epilogue - the Last Journey; Snow; Christine De Luca; Dancing with Demons; Streams in the Desert; Telling the Time; Kirkpatrick Dobie; Aberfan; King Claudius; Keith Douglas; Vergissmeinnicht; Simplify Me When I'm Dead; Adam Drinan; from The Men on the Rocks; Florence: Sleeping in Fog; Measures; Carol Ann Duffy; Prayer; War Photographer; Close; Valentine; Warming Her Pearls; Lesley Duncan; Festive Tolls; The Visit; Douglas Dunn; Ships; From the Night-Window; France; Envoi; Alison Fell; Pushing Forty; Pigeons; Rannoch Moor; Gillian Ferguson; Grey Kirk in the Mearns; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Bedtime; Gift; Finlay's House (in Rousay); O.H.M.S.; Lillias Scott Forbes; Turning a Fresh Eye; The Half-Inch Tweeddale; Veronica Forrest-Thomson; Sonnet; In This House; Not Pastoral Enough; G. S. Fraser; Home Town Elegy; Lean Street; The Traveller Has Regrets; Hugh Frater and Duncan Macrae; The Wee Cock Sparra; Robin Fulton; The End of an Age; A Note for Robert Henryson; Forecast for a Quiet Night; Robert Garioch; Elegy; I Was Fair Beat; Nemo Canem Impune Lacessit; Flora Garry; Rostov-on-Don ( ); The Professor's Wife; Magi Gibson; Just Like Eve; Goldilocks; Reading in Bed; Valerie Gillies; We Meet Again; Summer Bull; The Look-Alike; Duncan Glen; Bell Barrow; My Faither; Twa Warlds; W. S. Graham; Loch Thom; Greenock at Night I Find You; Letter VI; Sir Alexander Gray; Scotland; On a Cat, Ageing; The Fine Fechtin Mouse; Andrew Greig; Still; Interlude on Mustagh Tower; Ruth Says; George Campbell Hay; Still Gyte, Man?; The Hind of Morning; Homer; The Old Fisherman; Hamish Henderson; The Flyting o' Life and Daith; The st Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily; Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica:; Prologue; First Elegy; J. F. Hendry; The Constant North; The Ship; W. N. Herbert; The King and Queen of Dumfriesshire; Why the Elgin Marbles Must Be Returned to Elgin; Looking Up from Aeroplanes; Alan Jackson; Hitch-Haiku; Confessio; The Proddy Heebie Jeebies; The Worstest Beast; Violet Jacob; The Water-Hen; Tam i' the Kirk; The Neep-Fields by the Sea; Kathleen Jamie; Arraheids; The Queen of Sheba; Mrs McKellar, Her Martyrdom; Crossing the Loch; Jackie Kay; Old Tongue; Teeth; I. W. King; If Ye Hivni ...; Norman Kreitman; In Torrett, Minorca; Lizard; Glossy Mail; Bonfire in April; Frank Kuppner; from An Old Guide-Book to Prague; R. D. Laing; Sonnet; Sonnet; Helen Lamb; She Said / He Said; Evidence; Tom Leonard; The Good Thief; Feed Ma Lamz; Maurice Lindsay; At Hans Christian Andersen's Birthplace, Odense, Denmark; Hurlygush; 'Tis Sixty Years Since; Liz Lochhead; My Rival's House; The Empty Song; Poem for My Sister; Noises in the Dark; Roddy Lumsden; Yeah Yeah Yeah; Vanishing; Prayer to Be with Mercurial Women; George MacBeth; Shotts; The Ward; Alsatian; Brian McCabe; Seagull; Kite; Norman MacCaig; No Choice; Toad; Praise of a Collie; Heron; Byre; Double Life; Hugh MacDiarmid; Empty Vessel; The Bonnie Broukit Bairn; The Eemis Stane; O Jesu Parvule; Milk-Wort and Bog-Cotton; O Wha's Been Here Afore Me, Lass?; Lo! A Child is Born; Two Memories; from The Glass of Pure Water; Ellie McDonald; Widdershins; Uncle; Pittendrigh Macgillivray; Mercy o' Gode; Matt McGinn; Coorie Doon; The Big Orange Whale; Alastair Mackie; Schoolquine; Pieta; Primary Teachers; Albert D. Mackie; Molecatcher; Newsboy; Rayne Mackinnon; After the Snow; Bruckner; Scotland; The Cuillin; Hamish MacLaren; Island Rose; Alasdair Maclean; Rams; Question and Answer; After Culloden; Sorley MacLean / Somhairle MacGill-Eain; Calbharaigh / Calvary; My Een Are Nae on Calvary; Coin is madaidhean-allaidh / Dogs and Wolves; Traighean / Shores; Hallaig / Hallaig; Lionmhorachd anns na speuran / Tumultuous Plenty; in the Heavens; Robert McLellan; Sang; Anne MacLeod; Shakespeare No More; Persephone's Daughter; Hugh McMillan; Leaving Scotland by Train; The X Files: Bonnybridge, October '; Adam McNaughtan; Oor Hamlet; The Jeelie Piece Song; Aonghas MacNeacail; Oideachadh ceart / A Proper Schooling; Anochd is tu bhuam / Tonight You Being From Me; Hugh Macpherson; Looking for 's in the ' s; Gerald Mangan; Glasgow; Ailsa Craig; Kirkintilloch Revisited; Angus Martin; Passchendaele; Who Among Common Men of Their Time?; Gordon Meade; The Scrimshaw Sailor; The Great Spotted Woodpecker; In Eyemouth Harbour; Elma Mitchell; The Crucifixion Will Not Take Place; The Death of Adam; Thoughts After Ruskin; Naomi Mitchison; To a Fisherman with the Present of a Knife; The Scottish Renaissance in Glasgow:; The Farm Woman:; Nettlebed Road; William Montgomerie; Flodden; Epitaph; Edwin Morgan; King Billy; Glasgow Green; Strawberries; The First Men on Mercury; Ken Morrice; To a Shy Girl at a Party; Crossing the Alps; Voyager; Edwin Muir; Scotland; Mary Stuart; Scotland's Winter; Song; Merlin; One Foot in Eden; Stephen Mulrine; The Coming of the Wee Malkies; Neil Munro; Hey, Jock, Are Ye Glad Ye 'Listed?; The Heather; In Prison; Charles Murray; Gin I Was God; Charon's Song; The Whistle; Donald S. Murray; An Incomplete History of Rock Music in the Hebrides; William Neill; A Celtic History; Lark; Are You There, Mr Punch?; SiA'saidh NicNeill; Steel Yourself; For Eric Blair; Dennis O'Donnell; The Young Men of Blackburn; The Crab; Even Solomon; Donny O'Rourke; Wine and Wooing; A Letter From My Father; Janet Paisley; The Intellectual; Feminist; The Turning; Don Paterson; The Trans-Siberian Express; The Eyes; Walter Perrie; Exilics: Leaving Lochboisdale,; Ascending Strathbraan; Tom Pow; A Favourite Stretch of Disused Railway; The Years; Richard Price; Horseshoe Crab in Fragrante Delicto; On, Off, Over; John Purser; The Organist Confesses to His Mirror; Love Poem; David Purves; Crabbit Angels; Cleikit; Kathleen Raine; To My Mountain; Maire Macrae's Song; Highland Graveyard; Tessa Ransford; First Thaw; A Stable Relationship; Viewpoint; Alastair Reid; Propinquity; Scotland; Weathering; The Manse; Robert Rendall; The Horse-Mill; Angle of Vision; Alan Riach; Antenor; Sankey Hymns; James Robertson; Melt (Twa); Royalty; George Buchanan in Old Age; Robin Robertson; Affair of Kites; Flags of Autumn from Camera Obscura; David Rorie; The Pawkie Duke; Dilys Rose; Queen Bee; Figurehead; R. Crombie Saunders; The Empty Glen; Alexander Scott; Scotched; Continent o Venus; Calvinist Sang; The Sodgers; Tom Scott; Auld Sanct-Aundrians: Brand the Builder; Charles Senior; Fulmars; Robert Service; The Shooting of Dan McGrew; Burns Singer; Poem; 'The Local Ogres Are Against Me Here ...'; A Poem About Death; Iain Crichton Smith; Poem of Lewis; John Knox; Old Woman; Returning Exile; Two Girls Singing; Sydney Goodsir Smith; Elegy V from Under the Eildon Tree; Ye Mongers Aye Need Masks for Cheatrie; Philomel; Largo; Charles Hamilton Sorley; When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead; William Soutar; The Philosophic Taed; The Gowk; The Tryst; Who Are These Children?; The Permanence of the Young Men; Winter Beauty; Muriel Spark; We Were Not Expecting the Prince To-day; The Yellow Book; Lewis Spence; Portrait of Mary Stuart, Holyrood; Capernaum; Kenneth Steven; The Calvinist; The Long Silence; Lamb; Edge; William J. (Bill) Tait; 'On With the Dance! Let Freud Be Unconfined!'; The Contracting Universe; Adjustan Mysel tae the Situation; Derick Thomson / Ruaraidh MacThomais; Am bodach-rocais / Scarecrow; Steidhichean laidir / Lewis; Coimhthional Hiort / St Kildan Congregation; An darna eilean / The Second Island; Valerie Thornton; Birds of Passage; Ruthven Todd; Personal History; About Scotland, &c.; Sydney Tremayne; The Falls of Falloch; North of Berwick; Mixed Weather; Gael Turnbull; For Whose Delight; And I Think It Yours; Anne Turner; Medusa; W. Price Turner; Full Supporting Programme; Homely Accommodation, Suit Gent; Raymond Vettese; Scottish Mythology; Photograph; Scottish Names; Val Warner; Clearing Out; Roderick Watson; Is This Man, Martin Bormann?; Kenneth White; Brandan's Last Voyage; Song of the Coffin Close; McTaggart; Colin Will; Satori in Fauldhouse; Jim C. Wilson; Pruning; Death in Venice; Andrew Young; The Fear; Field-Glasses; The Falls of Glomach; Suilven; Culbin Sands; Douglas Young; The Ballant o' the Laird's Bath; For a Wife in Jizzen; For the Old Highlands; Last Lauch; Notes on Poets; Title Index; Index of First Lines.
