1. Douglas Dunn (1942)

Scottish Poet

Scottish poet, scholar, and literary critic known for Love or Nothing, St. Kilda's Parliament, The Donkey's Ear, and other works. He was awarded both the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and...

2. Mick Imlah (1956)

Scottish Poet

Michael Ogilvie Imlah better known as Mick Imlah was a Scottish poet and editor.

3. Robert Rendall (1898)

Scottish Poet

Robert Rendall was a poet and amateur naturalist who spent most of his life in Kirkwall Orkney.

4. Flora Garry (1900)

Scottish Poet

Garry was a Scottish poet who mostly wrote in the Scots dialect of Aberdeenshire. Well known for her poetry she played an important role along with Charles Murray and John...

5. T. S. Law (1916)

Scottish Poet

T. S. Law was a Scottish poet who published throughout the latter half of the 20th Century. His poetry is written mainly in the Scots language although he also wrote...

6. W. S. Graham (1918)

Scottish Poet

Sydney Graham was a Scottish poet who is often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets. Graham's poetry was mostly overlooked in his lifetime but partly due...

7. Robert Tannahill (1774)

Scottish Poet

Robert Tannahill was a Scottish poet. Known as the 'Weaver Poet' his music and poetry is contemporaneous with that of Robert Burns.

8. William Wright (poet) (1782)

Scottish Poet

ght was a Scottish poet. Born in the Row Ednam he was largely paralysed from birth. He was particularly keen on nature poetry and spent long hours in Ednam kirkyard...

9. William Wilkie (1721)

Scottish Poet

was a Scottish poet. The son of a farmer he was born in West Lothian and educated at Edinburgh. In 1757 he published the Epigoniad dealing with the Epigoni sons...

10. Jean Elliot (Unknow)

Scottish Poet

Jean Elliot also known as Jane Elliot was a Scottish poet and the third daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland in 1763. Her brothers...

11. Robert Alves (1745)

Scottish Poet

Robert Alves was a Scottish poet and prose writer. Alves was born in Elgin on 11 December 1745. His father's circumstances were humble but as a boy of promise he...

12. Robert Pollok (1798)

Scottish Poet

Robert Pollok was a Scottish poet best known for his work The Course of Time published in the year of his death. Pollok was born at North Moorhouse Farm Loganswell...

13. Roderick Watson (Unknow)

Scottish Poet

Roderick Watson is a Scottish poet born in Aberdeen. He is a professor emeritus in English Studies at the University of Stirling. Watson was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School Aberdeen...

14. John Finlay (poet) (1782)

Scottish Poet

John Finlay Scottish poet.

15. Derick Thomson (1921)

Scottish Poet

Professor Derick S. Thomson MA BA Dlitt FRSE FBA known as Ruaraidh MacThòmais in his native Scottish Gaelic was a Scottish poet publisher lexicographer academic and writer. He was originally...

16. Vagaland (Unknow)

Scottish Poet

Vagaland is arguably the greatest Shetland poet of the 20th century was born Thomas Alexander Robertson at Westerwick at the southern tip of the parish of Sandsting his mother’s home....

17. John Imlah (1799)

Scottish Poet

John Imlah was a Scottish poet. Imlah was the son of an innkeeper. He was born in Aberdeen on 15 November 1799. On completing his education at the grammar school...

18. Edith Anne Robertson (1883)

Scottish Poet

Edith Anne Robertson was a Scottish poet who wrote in both the English and Scots tongues.

19. James Hyslop (1798)

Scottish Poet

James Hyslop was a Scottish poet.

20. Thomas Seget (1569)

Scottish Poet

Thomas Seget was a Scottish poet who wrote in Latin. Seget is first recorded as a convert from Calvinism to Catholicism attending the Scots College at Louvain in 1596 but...

21. Gael Turnbull (1928)

Scottish Poet

Gael Turnbull was a Scottish poet who was an important precursor of the British Poetry Revival. Turnbull was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the North of England and...

22. John M. Caie (1879)

Scottish Poet

John Morrison Caie CB FRSE was a Scottish civil servant and poet. Caie was born and raised in Fochabers. He was the son of the Rev W. S. Caie minister...

23. Mairi nighean Alasdair Ruaidh (1569)

Scottish Poet

Mairi nighean Alasdair Ruaidh also known as Mary Macleod was a Scottish poet.

24. J. K. Annand (1908)

Scottish Poet

James King Annand MBE was a Scottish poet best known for his children's poems.

25. William Thom (poet) (1799)

Scottish Poet

Thom was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Scots language. He was author of The Mitherless Bairn and other works. Thom was a native of Aberdeen where he worked...

26. James Thomson (B.V.) (1834)

Scottish Poet

James Thomson who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night an expression of bleak pessimism...

27. James Thomson (poet) (1700)

Scottish Poet

James Thomson was a Scottish poet and playwright known for his masterpiece The Seasons and the lyrics of Rule Britannia!.

28. James Thomson (weaver poet) (1763)

Scottish Poet

James Thomson was a Scottish weaver poet of Currie near Edinburgh whose poetry in the Scottish vernacular was published in Leith in the early 19th century. He is remembered by...

29. Arthur Johnston (poet) (1579)

Scottish Poet

Arthur Johnston was a Scottish poet and physician. He was born in Caskieben near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire. His father Sir George Johnston was an Aberdeenshire laird and his mother Christian...

30. Alan Jackson (poet) (Unknow)

Scottish Poet

Alan Jackson is a Scottish poet. He was born in Liverpool of Scottish parents in 1938 who returned to Edinburgh in 1940. He attended the Royal High School in Edinburgh...

31. Alexander Anderson (poet) (1845)

Scottish Poet

Alexander Anderson was a Scottish poet. Born in Kirkconnel Dumfries and Galloway Scotland the sixth and youngest son of James Anderson a quarrier. When the boy was three the household...

32. David Gray (poet) (1838)

Scottish Poet

David Gray was a Scottish poet. The son of a handloom weaver Gray was born at Merkland by Kirkintilloch Dunbartonshire. His parents resolved to educate him for the kirk and...

33. David Murray (poet) (1567)

Scottish Poet

Sir David Murray of Gorthy was an officer in the household of Henry Frederick Prince of Wales in England from 1603 to 1612 and poet.

34. David Wingate (poet) (Unknow)

Scottish Poet

David Wingate was a Scottish poet and miner sometimes known as 'the collier poet'. His father died when he was five years old. Wingate started work in the coal-fields near...

35. Allan Ramsay (poet) (1686)

Scottish Poet

Allan Ramsay was a Scottish poet playwright publisher librarian and wig-maker.

36. Andrew Young (poet) (1885)

Scottish Poet

Andrew John Young was a Scottish poet and clergyman. His status as a poet was recognised quite late and he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1952.

37. Charles Spence (bard) (1779)

Scottish Poet

This article is about a Scottish poet for English psychologist with the same name see Charles Spence. Charles Spence was a Scottish poet stonemason and footman. The Bard of Gowrie;...

38. A. B. Jackson (1965)

Scottish Poet

The Scottish poet Andrew Buchanan Jackson was born on 19 June 1965 in Glasgow. His family soon moved to the town of Bramhall in Cheshire where Jackson received his primary...

39. John Wright (poet) (1805)

Scottish Poet

John Wright was a Scots poet. While still a youth Wright composed fifteen hundred lines of a tragedy entitled ‘Mahomet or the Hegira’ which he was forced to retain in...

40. Joseph Grant (poet) (1805)

Scottish Poet

Joseph Grant was a Scottish poet.