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William Soutar

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Read and listen to selected poems

Cradle Sang (1941) Craigie Knowes (1932)
Patriotism (1942) Ae Simmer's Day (1932)
The Quiet (1942) The Buckie Braes (1942)
The Visitation (1942) Ballad (1943)
The Kirk-Yaird (1942) The Dark Thocht (1943)
The Stany Face (1942) The Prodigy (1941)
The Auld Brig (1941) The Auld Man (1942)
Nae Day Sae Dark (1941) Backlands (1941)
John Knox (1942) Thrang and Thrivin (1942)
Yon Toun (1942) Hal o' the Wynd (1942)
Autobiography (1937) Aince Upon a Day (1932)
The River (1942) The Waterfall (1930)
To My Sycamore (1935) Epitaph for a Dead Self (1938)
The Tryst (1932) The Auld House (1938)

Many of these poems feature readings by the six previous Soutar Writers in Residence:

  • Raymond Vettese
  • John Herdman
  • Donald Campbell
  • Robert Alan Jamieson
  • Carl MacDougall
  • Brian McCabe

Click a poem to see its words, glossary and related photograph(s).
Most poems also have audio recordings which you can play when you link to the relevant page.