Leet o Scots poets an makars

Here is a leet o scottish poets an makars wha write or hae written in Scots, sangs or written poetry:

 A-G 
 John Barbour 
 Sheena Blackhall 
 Robert Burns
 Gavin Douglas
 William Drummond o Hawthornden
 William Dunbar
 Robert Fergusson
 Jenni Fagan
 Robert Garioch

 H-N 
 George Campbell Hay
 Hamish Henderson
 Robert Henryson
 Richard Holland
 Kathleen Jamie
 Liz Lochhead
 David Lyndsay
 Hugh MacDiarmid
 Richard Maitland
 Alexander Montgomerie
 Edwin Morgan
 William Neill (poet)

 O-Z 
 Len Pennie
 Alexander Scott
 Sydney Goodsir Smith
 William Soutar
 Mary Symon

Chronological leet

NameDate o birthDate o deithLocationNotes  1759-01-25 1796-07-21 Ayrshire  1686-10-15 1758-01-07 Lanarkshire  1909-01-20 1977-12-09 Aberdeen  1922-02-22 2010-04-05 Ayrshire  1863-09-25  1938-05-27  Dufftown, Moray  1320 1395-03-13  1947 Aberdeenshire  1474 1522-09  1585-12-15 1649-12-04  1460 1530  1750-09-05 1774-10-16  1977-09  Livingston  1909-05-09 1981-04-26 Edinburgh  1915 1984 Elderslie, Renfrewshire  1919-11-11 2002-03-09  1460 (approx) 1500 (approx)   1483  1962-05-13  1947-12-26  1490 1555  1892-08-11 1978-09-09 Langholm, Dumfriesshire  1496 1586-08-01  1550 1596  1550? 1598 Ayrshire  1920-04-27 2010-08-19  1999  1920 1989 Aberdeen  1915-10-26 1975-01-15  1898-04-28 1943-10-15 Perthshire  1744-05-17 1816-07-13 Longside, Aberdeenshire  1740 1821 Ayrshire  1760 1830  1799 1847-08-29  1704 1754  1758 1801 Townhead, Kilmarnock  1770-12-09 1835-11-21 Ettrick  1846-09-18 1922  1850-11-13 1894-12-03  1661 1740 Disblair, Aberdeenshire  1818-04 1895-10-12 Dublin, Ireland  1805-03-25 1856-09-15  1795-10-12 1873-10-27  Bridgend, Perth Writer of "Poems and Songs: Scotch and English" (1841)  1780 1845  1808-03-20 1877-02-10  1750-12-08 1825-05-06  1813-06-13 1865-08-04  1716 1768  1802  1815 Author of "My Grey Goose Quill" (1851) and "A Night on the Banks of Doon" (1838)  1816 Author of "Doric Lays" (1850)  1818-12-01  1882 1966  1775-10-09 1822-03-27 1875-08-26 1940-02-11  1863-09-01 1946-09-09  1957-03-19  1917 1991  1865-03-27 1946-08-18  1940  1950 Kirkcaldy  1910  1949  Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  21c  Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  Author of "Scottish Earth" (1923) and "Burn Water. Poems in English and Scots" (1939)  1904 1985 Journalist, poet and playwright, also wrote topical comic verse under the pseudonym 'macNib'. Author of "Poems in Two Tongues" (1928)  Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  1897 1962 Aberdeenshire Author o "The Orra Loon" (1946)  1883-01-10 1973-01-31 Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  Featured in "New Scots Poetry: a selection of short poems from the Festival of Britain Scots Poetry Competition" (1951)  Cowdenbeath / Aberdeen / Perth 21c  1960 New Cumnock 21c  Orkney 21c  1966 21c  1920 21c  21c  21c  1941 21c  1986 Author o "Deep Wheel Orcadia " (2021) 21c  1924-04-09 2015-01-03  Author o "Thrawart Threipins" (1976) and "Herts Bluid" (1995)  21c  Shetland 21c  21c - Ulster-Scots and Doric  21c - Ulster Scots  1955-03-26  21c  21c - Glasgow  21c - Ulster-Scots  21c - Ulster-Scots  1968 21c  21c  21c - Ulster-Scots  21c  21c  21c  21c  1931-06-05 2021-02-03 Ulster-Scots  1962 21c - Orkney  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  1952  21c  1956-04-10 21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  1944 21c  21c  21c  1940 21c  1949-07-11 21c  21c  1958 21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  1950 21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  1935 Author of "There's Ma Mammy Wavin" (2021)  21c  21c  1950   1939   1938   21c  21c - Orkney  21c  21c  21c  21c - Doric  21c  21c  1947 21c - Dundee  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  1951 21c - Ulster Scots  1945 21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  21c  1799 1846 Author of "May Flowers" (1827) and Poems and Songs (1841)  Author of "Hamespun Rhymes Frae the Spinnin Jenny" (1896)  Author of "A bit bookie of verse in the English and Scots tongues" (1905)  1817 1860  Early 20c  Early 20c  1869 1902  Early 20c  Glasgow Early 20c   Aberdeen Early 20c  Lesmahagow Early 20c - Author o "The Scot at Hame" (1922)  1882 1970   1877-09-29 1938-05-10 Inverness   1858 1919  Ellon, Aberdeenshire Early 20c   Ayr Early 20c  Midlothian Author of "The Lothian Land" (1917)  1856-12-22 1935-06-22  Glasgow Early 20c  Callander Early 20c  Forfarshire Early 20c  Glasgow Early 20c  Early 20c   Alloa, Clackmannanshire Early 20c  Early 20c  Kirkliston, West Lothian Early 20c  Dumbarton Author of "Clyde Ballads" (1910)   Aberdeenshire Early 20c  Aberdeen Editor of The Glasgow Evening News, Early 20c  Author of "Scent o' the Broom" (1923)   Larkhall Author o "Pride o' Raploch" (1920)  Edinburgh Uised nom de plume "Sanny McNee", Early 20c   Foveran, Aberdeenshire Author o' "The Passing Days and Other Verses" (1917)  Dalmellington, Ayrshire Nom de plume "Milreoch", Early 20c  Early 20c  Early 20c  1864-09-27 1941-04-12    1922 1952 Early 20c  1869-08-21 1963-01-30    Early 20c  Biggar, Lanarkshire Early 20c  1866 1933 Midlothian Author o "A Moray Loon" (1933)  1867 1946-02-18 Early 20c  1854 1914 Uised nom de plume "Anthony Rowley"  Author o' "Lays of the Old Clyde Shores" (1924)  Aberdeen Early 20c  Early 20c  1917 Early 20c  Aberdeenshire Uised nom de plume "Stoneywood" - Published "A Whiff O' the Doric" (1922) and "A Guff o' Peat Reek" (1920)  1909 Galloway Early 20c  1908-02-02 1993-06-08 Edinburgh  1747 1810  Mrs Brown of Falkland  1786 1854 Mrs Storie  1841 1922 New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire 19c?  1831 1913    1908 1975 Aberdeenshire  1929-09-20 1993-02-20 Aberdeenshire  1599 1631  21c  1878-08-20 1949-12-22  1786 1856 Forfar, Angus Author of "Humourous songs" (1821)  1790 1854 Author of "Poems, legendary, lyrical, and descriptive" (1842)  1792 1878 Author o "Scottish songs, ballads and poems" (1855)

Category:Scots poets

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