Full Description
Key Features and Benefits
- A collection of the popular and the more obscure chosen from the collection of poetry in Scots and put together by well known storyteller Stuart McHardy
- One of the great strengths of Scots is its capacity for strong rhythm and rhyme
- Inspired by Tom Atkinson's Poems to be Read Aloud: A Victorian Drawing Room Entertainment
- With a tendency towards the humorous it has everything from great works of art to simple pieces
- Includes poems from Older Scots to Modern Scots
- Stuart is also author of Scotland: Myth, Legend and Folklore, Edinburgh and Leith Pub Guide and the soon to be released Druidesses: the Nine Maidens
Contents
Ma Mither Tung The Whistle Freedom The Boy on the Train Tam o the Linn Sir Patrick Spens Shore Crab The Queer Folk i the Shaws pure radge The Wee, Wee Man See Ye Johnnie Comin? The Puddock Laid o Cockpen The Pest The Nicht is Neir Gone Saunders MacSiccar Thomas The Rhymer The Annunity The Mairch o the Legions The Farmers Ingle The Station -Master's Dochter The Widow's Lament The Packman Fitba Cliche The Stane Tam Lin Oor Neighbour's Pianny Willie Chisholm The Lowden Sabath Morn Drinking Drams Allison Gross The unfortunate Clown The Getherin o the Bawbees Halloween Waitin on the Glesca Train Johnnie Dowie's Ale Tibbie Fowler The Lum Hat Wantin the Croun Robin Tamson's Smiddy History-Wha's Story?
