num_pages: 232
description: John Buchan is known throughout the world as a thriller writer, particularly for The Thirty-Nine Steps. What is less well recognised is that he was a highly accomplished poet, much admired by Hugh MacDiarmid, and whose work continues to be included in contemporary poetry anthologies.Buchan's first published verse was a hymn, written when he was eleven years old; and in his twenties he won the Newdigate Poetry Prize at Oxford. He often included his own poems in his novels, and during the First World War these were collected, along with newly written war poems, into a well-received volume of poetry, half of which were written in Scots.
language: English
title: John Buchan's Collected Poems
titlecomplete: John Buchan's Collected Poems
publisher: Scottish Cultural Press