This personal collection of well-known and not-so-well-known Scots poems to read aloud includes great works of art and simple pieces of questionable ‘literary merit’. With an emphasis on humour it's a great companion volume to Tom Atkinson's Poems to be Read Aloud: A Victorian Drawing Room Entertainment - ‘much borrowed and rarely returned…a book for reading aloud in very good company, preferably after a dram or twa’.

This is a book to encourage the traditional Scottish ceilidh of song and recitation. For those who love poetry it’s a wonderful anthology to have to hand, and for all those people who do not normally read poetry this collection is for you.