The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry.

Intro -- 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 àlainn -- 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 (1) -- Love in Age -- Inheritance -- Kinnaird Head -- Departure and Departure and . . . -- Soup and Sherry -- Tom Bryan -- Planting Potatoes during Chernobyl -- John Buchan -- from Alastair Buchan (1917) -- 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 R. 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. Cruickshank -- 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 (1942).

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 51st 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 4 -- Sonnet 16 -- 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 -- Seagull.

Brian McCabe -- 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 -- Somhairle MacGill-Eain/Sorley MacLean -- Calbharaigh -- Calvary -- My Een Are Nae on Calvary -- Coin is madaidhean-allaidh -- Dogs and Wolves -- Tràighean -- Shores -- Hallaig -- Hallaig -- Lìonmhorachd 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 '95 -- 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 78's in the '40s -- Gerald Mangan -- Glasgow 1956 -- 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: 1935 -- The Farm Woman: 1942 -- 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 1941 -- 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? -- Siùsaidh NicNèill -- 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, 1919 -- Ascending Strathbraan -- Tom Pow -- A Favourite Stretch of Disused Railway -- The Years -- Richard Price -- Horseshoe Crab in Flagrante 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.

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