MODERN SCOTTISH POETRY

Most Americans are familiar with some of the poems and songs of the Scottish poet Robert Burns yet many have no knowledge of the many wonderful Scottish poets writing in the Twentieth Century and today.  In this course we will read the work of poets from different parts of Scotland:  Orcadians Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown, Edinburgh and Hebridean poet Norman MacCaig, Fraserburgh-born George Bruce, Lallans poet Hugh MacDiarmid, Gaelic poets Sorley Maclean and Iain Crichton Smith, Scottish Poet Laureate and Glaswegian, Edwin Morgan, St Andrew’s and Fife-based poets Douglas Dunn, Robert Crawford and Kathleen Jamie,  playwright/poet Liz Lochead and others.  Most of the poetry will be in English, some is in Scots and some will be translated from Scottish Gaelic.

Class is limited to 12 members.

ANNE SHIVAS is a Scot, a poet and a Vermont resident.  She grew up and received her B.Ed(Hons) in Edinburgh and her M.A. in Philosophy of Education in London.  She lived in Jerusalem, Israel, for ten years before coming to the Upper Valley.