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The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry
The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry is the principal competition for poetry in the Scots language. Run jointly by the University of Glasgow www.arts.gla.ac.uk/sesll/scotl and The Herald www.theherald.co.uk, the McCash Prize is held in the autumn of each year, with £1500 shared among the prize winners. Poems in any form of Scots are considered. Winning entries are published in The Herald.
The 2006 Shortleet
First Prize
Dilys Rose, 'Sailmaker's Palm'
Each of the three prize winning poems currently appears on the site under its own name. These can be linked too from this page
Second Prize
Liz Niven, 'Efter Ye Cam Back Fae Malawi'
Third Prize
Sheila Templeton, 'Nae Answer'
Shortlisted Poems
Sheena Blackhall, 'The Thorn Buss'
E.M. Buchanan, 'New Bairn'
William Hershaw, 'Fergusson'
Janice Johnston, 'Keppin' the Kye'
Lesley Kelly, 'Seafarers'
Julie McAnulty, 'The Cockle Pickers'
Sandra McQueen, 'Fae Monday, 1917'
David Nicol, 'A blether o geese'
Niall O'Gallagher, 'Per Umbram'
David Purves 'Heid Bummers'
Jim Waite, 'Royal Veesit tae Perth'
Jim Waite, 'Saunt Johnnie's Kirk'
Judges
Edwin Morgan, Liz Lochhead, Lesley Duncan, Douglas Gifford, Alan Riach