Collected Poems

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The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his "Collected Poems" was in production, 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 moving poems of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical poems of his later years - show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well. "Collected Poems" contains everything that the author wish-ed to preserve and be remembered for, as well as a personal introduction by Smith's old friend and poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

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"The fact that Smith's work - so admired by MacDiarmid, MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, Kurt Wittig, David Murison and other poets and scholars - has fallen comprehensively from view ... is a matter of dismay" --TLS