About The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse

The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse

Robert Crawford and Mick Imlah (editors)
London: Penguin, 2000.

Spanning a rich tradition from the sixth century to the dawn of the twenty-first, this magnificent collection is the first to cover the entire history of Scottish verse. Here are medieval 'makars' Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, the great bard Robert Burns, twentieth-century masters Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean, lesser-known works and the best of contemporary poets, including Don Paterson and Carol Ann Duffy. Reflecting the wealth of languages spoken in Scotland over the ages, there are poems in Gaelic, Latin and Old English with translations.

Encompassing the ancient and urban, religious and profane, Highland and Lowland, with folk ballads, bawdy comedy and love laments, poems of patriotism and passion, this is the definitive guide to the poetry of Scotland.

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