Collected Poems : Introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid

Author(s): Smith, Sydney Goodsir,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 22/05/2025,
Pagination: 269 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Calder Publications Ltd,
Published By: Alma Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Poetry,
Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 31
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780714550817

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The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.

The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect – from Skail Wind, first published in 1941, to the verse collections of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical compositions of his later years – show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well, and are a testament to the inventive genius of his mind.

Contains notes and a full glossary.