Title: Mair leaves fae Vagaland
First published: 1965
Description: Poet of Shetland - Vagaland, along with William J. Tait, is the most significant of the Shetland poets of the mid-20th century.

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His constant passion for maintaining the continuity of local tradition… was no mere antiquarian indulgence. It was fired by a real conviction, founded on personal experience, that the past revealed true insights into the art of living; that out of the lives of ordinary folk, engaged in their daily tasks and sustained by the warmth of close communities, there emerged basic truths about the human situation. And his poems were evocations of that life and affirmations of those truths.
Subjects: ‘Da Sang o da Papa Men’, Da Sangs at A’ll Sing ta Dee, The New Shetlander 1947
Places: Westerwick in the Parish of Sandsting Shetland, Lerwick, Edinburgh in 1932
People: with John J Graham. they co-wrote Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect (1952), Ernest Marwick, James MacCullie
Time periods: printed 1965 in Shetland, about life in Shetland UK.