Product Description

Key Features and Benefits - A collection of the popular and the more obscure chosen from the collection of poetry in Scots and put together by well known storyteller Stuart McHardy - One of the great strengths of Scots is its capacity for strong rhythm and rhyme - Inspired by Tom Atkinson's Poems to be Read Aloud: A Victorian Drawing Room Entertainment - With a tendency towards the humorous it has everything from great works of art to simple pieces - Includes poems from Older Scots to Modern Scots - Stuart is also author of Scotland: Myth, Legend and Folklore, Edinburgh and Leith Pub Guide and the soon to be released Druidesses: the Nine Maidens

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1100452 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
STUART McHARDY might be described as a lad o pairts - writer, musician, storyteller, folklorist, historian, linguist, poet, past president of the Pictish Arts Society, historical adviser to Edinburgh City Art Centre's Quest for Camelot exhibition in 2001/2 - and is known to lecture on many aspects of Scottish history and culture at the drop of a hat, or the pop of a cork. To date, McHardy has had five of his own books published, Scotland: Myth, Legend and Folklore, Strange Secrets of Ancient Scotland, Tales of Whisky and Smuggling, The Wild Haggis an The Greetin-faced Nyaff and Edinburgh and Leith Pub Guide. He introduced and edited the bestselling Scots Poems to be Read Aloud and for 5 years in the 1990s was Director of the Scots Language Resource Centre in Perth. He now lives in Edinburgh with the lovely (and ever-tolerant) Sandra and their talented son Roderick.