A Year of Scottish Poems
No. of pages 592
Published: 2018
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A Year of Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of 366 poems compiled by Gaby Morgan. Reflecting the changing seasons, landscape and history of Scotland and her people and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar - from Burns Night to Hogmanay - these poems are powerful, thoughtful and uplifting.
With an introduction from the National Poet for Scotland, Makar Jackie Kay, this collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry including Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Mackay Brown, Sir Walter Scott, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson, Nan Shepherd, Stewart Conn, Kathleen Jamie, Elma Mitchell, John Rice, Muriel Spark, Iain Crichton Smith, Sorley MacLean, Julia Donaldson, Carolina Oliphant, Norman MacCaig, Marion Angus, Kate Clanchy, Carol Ann Duffy and many more to deliver magic on every page that lasts a whole year!
This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.
There are 592 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2018 by Pan Macmillan .
Gaby Morgan is the Editorial Director for Poetry at Macmillan Children's Books.