The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry
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Community in Modern Scottish Literature, 214-234. Brill Rodopi. doi:10.1163/9789004317451_013)
Community in Modern Scottish Literature, 214-234. Brill Rodopi. doi:10.1163/9789004317451_013
This chapter examines the poetry of Scottish South Asians, the "New Scots" who bring a whole history of displacement, dislocation and relocation with them, as their memory of...
Of poetry and politics: MacDiarmid's vision of Scotland
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Lyall, S. (2006)
Of poetry and politics: MacDiarmid's vision of Scotland. [The Scotsman]. https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/poetry-and-politics-macdiarmids-vision-scotland-2469677
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Lyall, S. (Ed.)
(2015). The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite – is one of the most important Scott...
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2012)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance. In G. Carruthers, & L. McIlvanney (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (173-187). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Though commonly viewed as definitively rural and nationalist, the Scottish Literary Renaissance was actually begun in London by an émigré community of Burnsian Scots. The Vern...