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Book SynopsisSangs That Sing Sae Sweit - 50 Years o Lallans Poesie Since it first kythit in 1972 The Scots Leid Associe/The Scots Language Society has ettled tae publish a fowth o screivins by the maist byordinair makars and screivers o Scots in the pages o its bi-annual magazine, Lallans. Lallans is a ferlie in itsel, haen survived and fordered tae rax tae its 100th issue in 2022. Sangs That Sing Sae Sweit is an ingaitheran o some o the best wark by the heidmaist authors tae screive poetry in the Scots leid ower this hauf century o mensefou chynge in Scottish life, politics and cultur. It sterts wi the makars at the hinder-end o Scottish Leiterary Renaissance and taks the reader up intil the here and nou and the new generation o screivers, the bairns o the Scottish Parliement. Sangs That Sing Sae Sweit is pruif that Scots is no a deean language. Alang wi Wunds That Blaw Sae Roch (The Scots prose anthology that is published sib wi it) it is steekit wi tentfou, thochtie and brawsome celebrations o our kintrae, our landscape, fowk, sangs, leir and history. While it celebrates the cairrying stream o bonnie screivers, some wha hae passed on, it bides relevant and luiks faurrit tae the hecht and hairst o the future. Sangs That Sing Sae Sweit tells us that the Scots leid is whaur it aye has been - the ongaun and virrfou vyce o the fowk.
Table of ContentsContents Foreword vii Acknowledgements viii Lallans Is For Aabody: 100 Issues o the Lallans Magazine xvii Introduction xxvii Lallans 1: Bigamist - Alastair Mackie 1 Lallans 2: Peasants' Revolt - David Angus 3 Lallans 3: Rondel - William J. Tait 4 Last Lauch - Donald Campbell 5 Lallans 6: Wind In The Crescent - Edwin Morgan 6 Lallans 7: The Reminder - Robert Garioch 7 Smeddum - Ellie McDonald 8 Lallans 10: Ochils In Steekit Simmer - Hamish M. Brown 9 Lallans 12: Slander At The Wallie - A.M. Davidson 10 Lallans 14: See Them - Douglas Fraser 11 Lallans 15: My Grandfaither - Moira Catell 12 x Lallans 16: The Tattie Bogle - Jamie A. Smith 13 Lallans 25: Fada Ata Mise An Deidh Chaich - William Neill 14 Lallans 26: Mithermine - Carol Galbraith 15 Lallans 27: Fir Ian Hamilton Finlay - John McDonald 16 Oor Ain Folk - T. S. Law 17 Embro 1986 - James Robertson 18 Lallans 28: Sang o the Midwinter Rose - William Montgomerie 19 Mary - Kate Armstrong 20 Lallans 30: Sangstress - Ken Morrice 22 The Curse o a Deein Tongue - Joy Hendry 23 Poet - Christopher Rush 25 Lallans 31: The Warld Cowps Lichtlie owre intil Bleck Nicht - Tony McManus 26 Lallans 33: Christmas Card - E. M. Buchanan 27 Lallans 34: The Storm - Eilidh Rut NicBhaltair 29 Lallans 36: Snaw Faw - J. K. Annand 30 xi Lallans 37: Wrack an Waith - Jean Massie 31 Lallans 38: Howgate - Athole Cameron 33 The Guitarist - Lillian Anderson 35 Lallans 40: Murlins - G.F. Dutton 36 Anniversary - William Graham 37 Lallans 41: Bible Cless - Neil R. MacCallum 38 The Braw Thocht - Edith MacArthur 39 In Praise O Dee - George Philip 41 Glesga Skunner - W. L. Wilson 43 Lallans 45: The Wickedness o War - David Purves 44 Lallans 47: Foundness - John Manson 45 Mist In Edinburgh - A.D. Mackie 46 Lallans 48: The Yird'll Dwam - Harvey Holton 47 Martyrs - Liz Niven 49 Lallans 50: The Daith Tree - David Purdie 50 We Hae Tint E'en - Kenneth Farrow 52 Lallans 51: The Sea Coal - John Brewster 53 xii Wards - George Hardie 55 Lallans 53: The Image O God - Joe Corrie 56 Museum o Scotland - Derek Ross 57 Lallans 54: Braw Scots - Alix-Marie McDowell 58 Lallans 55: Saumon Rin - Muriel Ferrier 59 Lallans 56: Storm at Byron Bay - Aimee Chalmers 60 Lallans 57: A Hamesang Singan - Tom Wilson 61 Figures Receding - Flora Garry 66 Lallans 58: Not On A Raised Beach - Christine de Luca 68 The Wa-Ganging o the Meinister - Aitken Fyall 70 Lallans 59: Frae Eleiven Quad Bike Poems - Brent Hodgson 72 Butterie - Lillias Scott Forbes 75 Lallans 60: Hospital Kitchen - Maureen Sangster 76 Jist a Domestic - Betty Tindal 78 Lallans 61: Munehairst - Elaine Morton 79 Lallans 63: Tinker Wife - Mary Johnston 81 xiii Lallans 64: Cauld Licht - Raymond Vettese 84 Lallans 65: The Smoky Smirr o Rain - George Campbell Hay 86 Lallans 67: The Dark Whirling Dun - Hugh MacDiarmid 88 Leddy o the Xiang Watter - Brian Holton 91 Lallans 68: Tae Ma Bairn - Donald MacKay 93 Hundersoles - Peter Cameron 94 Sparrahawk - Robert R. Calder 95 Asylum Seeker - Mary Smith 98 Lallans 69: Bane-Blether - Colin Donati 99 The Biggin o the Great Nor Road - John McPartlin 100 Lallans 74: The Lion Laid Low by the Man - Walter Perrie 102 Salome's Last Trophy - Frances Robson 103 Coronach fir a Makar - Rab Wilson 105 Lallans 76: Unco - Hamish Scott 106 Lallans 77: Hurdy-gurdy Man, Ainster - Gordon Jarvie 108 Lallans 78: The Lichts o Paris - Ann Mackinnon 109 xiv Lallans 80: Here be Sangs - Stuart McHardy 111 Lallans 82: Simmer Strand - Rowena M. Love 112 Lallans 83: A Gift it Yuletid - Ian Nimmo White 113 Liquide Assets - Penny Cole 114 Lallans 86: Jaws - Stuart A. Paterson 115 Lallans 87: Lines written in appreciation of Lord David Anthony Freud, Baron of Eastry - Lindsay Oliver 116 Lallans 88: Immigrants Abuse Scottish Adoption System - Char March 118 Lallans 89: Mowdiewarp - Catherine MacDonald 119 Lallans 90: Cathedral - Fran Ballie 120 The Trump - Douglas Kynoch 121 Lallans 91: Ma Haun Is Wabbit Wi Screivin - Duncan Sneddon 123 Dae Puddocks Byde There Tae? - Tom Hubbard 124 Lallans 92: Pittenweem Jo - John Watt 127 Nae Information' s Ever Tint - William Hershaw 128 Lallans 94: Wrannie - Irene Howat 130 Sib Tae A Man - Donald Adamson 132 xv Dear Wife - Sheila Templeton 134 For Hugh MacDiarmid - Sam Gilliland 136 The Waal - J. Derrick McClure 137 Lallans 96: The Trebbler's Tale - David Bleiman 139 There's Aye Water Far The Stirkie Droons - Fiona-Jane Brown 142 Ma Language - Tracy Anne Harvey 144 Choir Practice - J. Barrie Shepherd 146 Oor Neu Colossus - Ann Shivas 148 Lallans 97: In The Gairden - Sheena Blackhall 149 Lallans 98: If There Wis a Scottish Enlightenment Nicht Oot - Hugh McMillan 150 Wee Weaver Birdie - Alan Millar 151 A'm No Having Children - Ellen Pennie 153 Lallans 99: Screivit After The Storming o Capitol Hill, Washington - George T Watt 154 Violet's Song - Lisa Ross 155 Eva's Balaloo - Rosa Alba MacDonald 157 ' Index of Authors and Titles of Poems 159
