100 Favourite Scottish Poems

Poems to make you laugh. Poems to make you cry. Poems to make you think. Poems to savour. Poems to read out loud. To read again, and again. Scottish poems. Old favourites. New favourites. 100 of the best.
Scotland has a long history of producing outstanding poetry. From the humblest but-and-ben to the grandest castle, the nation has a great tradition of celebration and commemoration through poetry. 100 Favourite Scottish Poems - incorporating the top 20 best-loved poems as selected by a BBC Radio Scotland listener poll - ranges from ballads to Burns, from 'Proud Maisie' to 'The Queen of Sheba', and from 'Cuddle Doon' to 'The Jeelie Piece Song'.
Edited by Stewart Conn, poet and inaugural recipient of the Institute of Contemporary Scotland's Iain Crichton Smith Award for services to literature (2006).
Published in association with the Scottish Poetry Library, a unique national resource and advocate for the enriching art of poetry. Through its collections, publications, education and outreach work, the SPL aims to make the pleasures of poetry available as widely as possible.

Poems to make you laugh. Poems to make you cry. Poems to make you think. Poems to savour. Poems to read out loud. To read again, and again. Scottish poems. Old favourites. New favourites. 100 of the best.
Scotland has a long history of producing outstanding poetry. From the humblest but-and-ben to the grandest castle, the nation has a great tradition of celebration and commemoration through poetry. 100 Favourite Scottish Poems - incorporating the top 20 best-loved poems as selected by a BBC Radio Scotland listener poll - ranges from ballads to Burns, from 'Proud Maisie' to 'The Queen of Sheba', and from 'Cuddle Doon' to 'The Jeelie Piece Song'.
Edited by Stewart Conn, poet and inaugural recipient of the Institute of Contemporary Scotland's Iain Crichton Smith Award for services to literature (2006).
Published in association with the Scottish Poetry Library, a unique national resource and advocate for the enriching art of poetry. Through its collections, publications, education and outreach work, the SPL aims to make the pleasures of poetry available as widely as possible.