Articles categorised as Dumfries & Galloway

South Central Scots

[playlist29] SUB DIALECT OF CENTRAL SCOTS: SOUTH CENTRAL Name Scots has been spoken here since the Middle Ages. The dialect is known as South Central Scots, because it is closely related to...

Hugh MacDiarmid- A Portrait by Margaret Tait (1964)

'An original kind of tribute' is what George Mackay Brown called Tait's 1964 documentary about one of Scotland's greatest poets; Hugh MacDiarmid. "A study of the poet, who was seventy-one at...

Margaret Tait

Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most individual artist filmmakers. Over the course of 46 years she produced over 30 films including one feature, Blue Black Permanent (1992) and published five...

The Watergaw

Listen to Hugh MacDiarmid talk about and read his masterpiece, the Watergaw. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1557

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

Listen to Hugh MacDiarmid read, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/MacDiarmid.html

The Hugh MacDiarmid memorial Langholm

Hugh MacDiarmid Links

Scottish Poetry Library biography http://www.spl.org.uk/poets_a-z/macdiarm.html BBC Scottish Writers

South west poets launch anthology

A capacity audience at the Robert Burns Centre saw nearly a full complement of Makars on stage performing their poetry as part of the national launch of a new anthology of Scots poetry- Chuckies...

Homecoming in East Ayrshire

From now to mid May 2009 there is a 'Creative Burns' exhibition at The Dick in Kilmarnock, part of a year of events to mark the Year of Homecoming. The exhibition contains original manuscripts and...

A Scots Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam

The well known Ayrshire poet Rab Wilson has produced a Scots translation of the Persian classic 'The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam'. Here we can listen to an extract of Rab reading from the first...

Accent o the Mind

'Accent o the Mind' is an anthology of poetry by Rab Wilson, published in 2006. Available as a book or a CD it demonstrates the variety of interests Rab pursues in his poetry. There are...

Burns women take the stage

‘Tea With Clarinda’ is a play written by Anna Hillis about the two women in the life of Robert Burns, his wife, Jean Armour, and his romantic correspondent Nancy McLehose. Hillis imagines what...

Tea With Clarinda

‘Tea With Clarinda’ is a play written by Anna Hillis about the two women in the life of Robert Burns, his wife, Jean Armour, and his romantic correspondent Nancy McLehose. Hillis imagines what...

Wigtown Primary encouraging Scots language

Wigtown Primary headteacher Stewart Anderson is a lifelong supporter of the Scots language, and has been instrumental in creating a reading incentive scheme which encourages the use of Scots...

Wigtown Primary Passport scheme

Wigtown Primary headteacher Stewart Anderson is a lifelong supporter of the Scots language, and has been instrumental in creating a reading incentive scheme which encourages the use of Scots...

New Translations

Translations of two medieval Scots language texts have recently been published. 'The life and miracles of St Ninian' is a translation of an anonymous early 15th Century Scots poem. Set in...

Photography inspires poetry

Derek Ross from Stranraer and Dumfries writes poetry using photographs as a foundation for much of his work. We have here two of his Scots language poems which have come from photographs he took....

Scottish Poetry Library Poet of the month

The Scottish Poetry Library have highlighted Rab Wilson as their poet of the month in December 2009. The well known Scots language poet from Ayrshire will be promoted through the library's website...

Rab Wilson's Yule poetry

Rab Wilson from Ayrshire writes in Scots about a wide range of subjects. Here we have two links to some of his Christmas poetry. http://scottishpoetrylibrary.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/rabs-rsvp/

James Hogg poetry about love

James Hogg lived in the Borders, Dumfries and Edinburgh in the early 19th century. A contemporary of Burns and Scott, his work was somewhat overlooked at the time and is now being reassessed by...

Nicola Black sings McDiarmid

Dumfriesshire musician Nicola Black has released a CD of Scots language songs called Moonstruck. Setting Hugh McDiarmid poetry to her own compositions, she has used a variety of styles to bring...

Drunk Man set to music

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Hugh MacDiarmid’s Scots poem, with its infamously thrawn narrator, is set to music of huge imagination and vibrancy by Glasgow composer Bill Sweeney  in a...

Scots bird names

[simg1242] In spring and summer birdsong forms an audio backdrop to our lives, birds visit our gardens and we are cheered by the sights and sounds of birds around us.  Scots is rich in language...

Ruthwell Cross

The Ruthwell Cross, with its Christian images, intertwined little animals, many fancy spirals and patterns, is very important for the history of Scots-speaking Scotland. Sited in the church of the...

The Dream of the Rood

Derrick McClure reads the Anglo-Saxon text of the poem.

The Scots translation

Derrick McClure reads the Scots translation of the poem 'The Dream of the Rood'.

A Conversation

Dauvit Horsbroch and Derrick McClure discuss the Ruthwell Cross, the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Dream of the Rood' and its importance to Scots language academics.

A Scots introduction

Dauvit Horsbroch introduces us to the Ruthwell Cross and explains it's an important part in the history of the Scots language.

Emily Smith album

Emily Smith has recently released a new CD of folk songs - Traiveller's Joy. Singing in English and in Scots, Emily is following this up with a six week series of Scots song workshops in...