A list of Scottish poets in English, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, Latin, French, Old Welsh and other languages. This lists includes people living in what is now Scotland before it became so.
A
editAlasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair | |
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 Arisaig Old Cemetery, Burial place of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair |
William Aytoun | |
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- Helen Adam
- Henry Adamson
- Hew Ainslie
- Thomas Aird
- Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal
- Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
- Robert Allan
- Sandra Alland
- Robert Alves
- Alexander Anderson
- Freddie Anderson
- William Anderson
- Marion Angus
- Aneirin
- J. K. Annand
- William Anstruther
- Alexander Arbuthnot
- Arthur Argo
- John Armstrong
- John Armstrong
- Donna Ashworth
- Thomas Atkinson
- William Auld
- Robert Aytoun
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun
B
editSheena Blackhall | |
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George Buchanan | |
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 Engraving by Jacobus Houbraken |
Robert Burns | |
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 Monument to Robert Burns in Aberdeen, created by Henry Bain Smith |
- Joanna Baillie
- Alexander Bald
- Alexander Balfour
- James Ballantine
- George Bannatyne
- Anne Bannerman
- John Barbour
- John Barclay
- Matthias Barr
- Thomas de Barry
- Meg Bateman
- George Beattie
- James Beattie
- William Beattie
- Beccán mac Luigdech
- John Joy Bell
- John Bellenden
- David MacLeod Black
- Sheena Blackhall
- John Stuart Blackie
- Thomas Blacklock
- Robert Blair
- Blind Harry
- Alan Bold
- Deric Bolton
- Mark Alexander Boyd
- David Boyle
- Frederick Victor Branford
- George Mackay Brown
- Horatio Brown
- Archibald Bruce
- Michael Bruce
- Giolla Críost Brúilingeach
- John Buchan
- Dugald Buchanan
- George Buchanan
- Robert Williams Buchanan
- Rhoda Bulter
- Haldane Burgess
- James Drummond Burns
- Elizabeth Burns
- Robert Burns
- John Burnside
- John Burrell
- Ron Butlin
- Lord Byron
C
editThomas Campbell | |
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 Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence c.1810 |
Iain Crichton Smith | |
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- John M. Caie
- Maoilios Caimbeul
- Janet Caird
- Angus Calder
- Norman Cameron
- A. Y. Campbell
- Angus Peter Campbell
- Dorothea Primrose Campbell
- Thomas Campbell
- Sìleas na Ceapaich
- Kate Clanchy
- Thomas A. Clark
- William Cleland
- W. D. Cocker
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Stewart Conn
- Dominic Cooper
- Grace Corbett
- Joe Corrie
- Thomas Craig
- Robert Crawford
- Archibald Crawfurd
- Duncan MacGregor Crerar
- Iain Crichton Smith
- Ian Crockatt
- Helen Cruickshank
- Allan Cunningham
- Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore
- Walterina Cunningham
- James Cuthbertson
- Ivor Cutler
D–F
editImtiaz Dharker | |
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 Dharker at the British Library 12 April 2011 |
Carol Ann Duffy | |
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Robert Ferguson | |
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 Statue of Robert Fergusson outside the Kirk of the Canongate, Edinburgh |
- David Daiches
- Hew Dalrymple
- John Davidson
- Robert Davidson
- Thomas Davidson
- Edward Davison
- Christine De Luca
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Des Dillon
- David Doig
- Julia Donaldson
- Rob Donn
- Gavin Douglas
- George Brisbane Scott Douglas
- William Drummond of Hawthornden
- William Dudgeon
- Carol Ann Duffy
- William Dunbar
- Hal Duncan
- Douglas Dunn
- George Eglisham
- Jean Elliot
- Henry Erskine
- Jenni Fagan
- William Falconer
- Henry Brougham Farnie
- Vicki Feaver
- Alison Fell
- Robert Fergusson
- John Ferriar
- Alec Finlay
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- John Finlay
- Matthew Fitt
- James Fordyce
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson
- William Forsyth
- William Fowler
- George Sutherland Fraser
- Olive Fraser
- Robin Fulton
G
editFlora Garry | |
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George Gilfillan | |
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Alasdair Gray | |
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- Richard Gall
- Miriam Gamble
- Alexander Garden
- Robert Garioch
- Flora Garry
- William Gay
- Alexander Geddes
- Magi Gibson
- George Gilfillan
- Robert Gilfillan
- Robert Pearse Gillies
- Duncan Glen
- William Glen
- John Glenday
- Jean Glover
- Robert Gordon of Straloch
- Rody Gorman
- James Graeme
- Lollie Graham
- W. S. Graham
- James Grahame
- James Grainger
- Alex Grant
- David Grant
- Joseph Grant
- Alasdair Gray
- Alexander Gray
- Christian Gray
- David Gray
- James Gray
- Andrew Greig
- John Grieve
H
editJanet Hamilton memorial | |
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 Janet Hamilton Memorial Fountain, West End Park, Coatbridge |
James Hogg | |
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 Painting by John Watson Gordon |
- Kris Haddow
- Jen Hadfield
- George Halket
- Janet Hamilton
- Patrick Hamilton
- Thomas Hamilton
- William Hamilton (British Army officer)
- William Hamilton (comic poet)
- William Hamilton (Jacobite poet)
- Patrick Hannay
- Scott Hastie
- Susanna Hawkins
- George Campbell Hay
- Gilbert Hay
- Hamish Henderson
- Diana Hendry
- J. F. Hendry
- Robert Henryson
- Thomas Nicoll Hepburn
- W. N. Herbert
- Robert Herring
- William Hershaw
- William Maxwell Hetherington
- Robert Hetrick
- James Hogg
- Richard Holland
- John Home
- Tom Hubbard
- Huchoun
- Alexander Hume
- David Hume of Godscroft
- Patrick Hume of Polwarth
- Anne Hunter
- Pearse Hutchinson
- James Hyslop
I-K
editKathleen Jamie |
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Jackie Kay | |
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L
editDavid Lyndsay | |
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- R D Laing
- Andrew Lang
- John Lapraik
- William Lauder
- T. S. Law
- Joseph Lee
- Charlotte Lennox
- Tom Leonard
- Frances Leviston
- Eddie Linden
- Jenny Lindsay
- Maurice Lindsay
- Janet Little
- Pippa Little
- Liz Lochhead
- John Logan
- Iain Lom
- John Longmuir
- Roddy Lumsden
- David Lyndsay
- Agnes Lyon
- John Lyon
- Henry Francis Lyte
Mac/Mc
editHugh MacDiarmid | |
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Sorley MacLean | |
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William McGonagall | |
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- George MacBeth
- Norman MacCaig
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Andrew Macdonald
- Donald MacDonald, Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
- George MacDonald
- James Macfarlan
- Murdo Macfarlane
- James Pittendrigh Macgillivray
- Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
- Stuart MacGregor
- Artúr Dall Mac Gurcaigh
- Duncan Ban MacIntyre
- James McIntyre
- John William Mackail
- Barbara Mackay
- Charles Mackay
- John Henry Mackay
- Lachlan Mackinnon
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh
- Ewen MacLachlan
- Alasdair Maclean
- Sorley MacLean
- Anne MacLeod
- Joseph Macleod
- Aonghas MacNeacail
- Kevin MacNeil
- Hector Macneill
- Robert Macnish
- James Macpherson
- Jamie Macpherson
- Donnchadh MacRath
- Brian McCabe
- Marion McCready
- Matthew McDiarmid
- Elvis McGonagall
- William McGonagall
- William McIlvanney
- Alastair McIntosh
- Alexander McLachlan
- Robert McLellan
- Hugh McMillan
M
editNaomi Mitchison | |
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Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown | |
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- Wes Magee
- Richard Maitland
- Willy Maley
- David Mallet
- Peter Manson
- Theodore Martin
- James Maxwell
- John Mayne
- Isabella Fyvie Mayo
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
- Gordon Meade
- Elizabeth Melville
- James Melville
- William Mercer
- William Meston
- William Julius Mickle
- William Miller
- Christian Milne
- Drew Milne
- Elma Mitchell
- Naomi Mitchison
- David Macbeth Moir
- Alexander Montgomerie
- James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
- Edwin Morgan
- J. O. Morgan
- David R. Morrison
- William Motherwell
- Edwin Muir
- Raman Mundair
- John Munro
- Neil Munro
- William Murdoch
- Charles Murray
- Robert Fuller Murray
N–R
editCarolina Nairne | |
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 Portrait by John Watson Gordon |
Don Paterson | |
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 Don Paterson reading at Bridlington Poetry Festival |
- Carolina Nairne
- Charles Neaves
- William Neill
- William Nicholson
- Robert Nicoll
- Niall O'Gallagher
- William Henry Ogilvie
- Meta Orred
- George Outram
- Janet Paisley
- Andrew Park
- Alasdair Paterson
- Don Paterson
- Walter Perrie
- Robert Pollok
- Katrina Porteous
- Richard Price
- Alison Prince
- Thomas Pringle
- Pauline Prior-Pitt
- John Purser
- David Purves
- Walter Quin
- Seán Rafferty
- Tessa Ransford
- Alastair Reid
- Robert Rendall
- Alan Riach
- Henry Scott Riddell
- Hugh S. Roberton
- Gary Robertson
- James Robertson
- James Logie Robertson
- Robin Robertson
- John Rolland
- David Rorie
- Uilleam Ros
- Dilys Rose
- Alexander Ross
S
editSir Walter Scott, Bart. | |
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 Raeburn's portrait of Sir Walter Scott in 1822 |
Robert Service | |
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 Robert W. Service, c. 1905 |
Gerda Stevenson | |
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 Gerda Stevenson at the Féile na Gréine festival, Waterville, County Kerry |
- Suhayl Saadi
- Lady Margaret Sackville
- Stephen Scobie
- Alexander Scott (16th-century poet)
- Alexander Scott (20th-century poet)
- Tom Scott
- Walter Scott
- Sir William Scott of Thirlestane
- William Bell Scott
- Thomas Seget
- J. B. Selkirk
- James Sempill
- Robert Sempill the elder
- Robert Sempill the younger
- Robert W. Service
- John Campbell Shairp
- William Sharp
- Nan Shepherd
- David Sillar
- Burns Singer
- Felicia Skene
- John Skinner
- William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
- Alexander Smith
- John Gibson Smith
- Morelle Smith
- Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Walter Chalmers Smith
- Charles Sorley
- William Soutar
- Muriel Spark
- Alan Spence
- Charles Spence
- Lewis Spence
- Alicia Ann Spottiswoode, Lady John Scott
- John Sterling
- Gerda Stevenson
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Ena Lamont Stewart
- John Stewart of Baldynneis
- John Alexander Stewart
- John Roy Stewart
- William Stewart
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
- Thomas Tod Stoddart
- John Struthers
- Muriel Stuart
- Maud Sulter
T-Z
editRachel Annand Taylor | |
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 Portrait of Rachel Annand Taylor by John Duncan |
Thomas Urquhart | |
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Andrew Young |
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- Alexander Tait
- Margaret Tait
- Robert Tannahill (weaver poet)
- Rachel Annand Taylor
- William Tennant
- William Thom
- Thomas the Rhymer
- Derick Thomson
- James Thomson
- James Thomson (weaver poet)
- James Thomson (B.V.)
- Ruthven Todd
- Gael Turnbull
- Joan Ure
- Thomas Urquhart
- Vagaland
- George Valentine
- Ryan Van Winkle
- John Veitch
- Florentius Volusenus
- Roderick Watson
- Lauchlan Watt
- James Wedderburn
- John Wellwood
- Kenneth White
- Brian Whittingham
- Christopher Whyte
- George Whyte-Melville
- William Wilkie
- Colin Will
- Kevin Williamson
- John Wilson
- Rab Wilson
- William Wilson
- David Wingate
- John Wright
- William Wright
- Andrew Young
- Douglas Young
- John Younger