| SCOTS
- The Language of the People (Available) |
| SCOTS
- The Language of the People accompanies the four-part
television series screened by BBC2 in early 2006. Written
and presented by Carl MacDougall, the series tells
the story of the Scots language from its common roots
with English to the present day. Carl has compiled
an anthology which features the work of 50 writers
covering more than 800 years, from the anonymous 13th-century
makars to Edwin Morgan, Tom Leonard, Adam McNaughtan
and Kathleen Jamie. Our greatest writers, William Dunbar,
Robert Burns, James Hogg, Sir Walter Scott, Robert
Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, are featured.
Extracts from the great epic poems on Bruce and Wallace,
the works of Gavin Douglas, Robert Henryson and Sir
David Lyndsay, sit alongside anonymous ballad singers
and unknown writers whose work appeared in 19th-century
newspapers and magazines. The great prose pieces are
included, from the 16th-century curiosities to stories
by John Galt, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Robert McLellan.
Our finest poets and songwriters such as Allan Ramsay,
Hamish Henderson, Marion Angus and Robert Fergusson
rub shoulders with Robert Tannahill, Neil Munro, Robert
Garioch and William Soutar. Each piece carries a separate
introduction and the contents are arranged to make
the anthology as readable as possible, showing, through
living, practical examples, how the language developed
and survived and how its present is healthier than
ever. |
| Price: £9.99.
P&P: £1.50 |
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| The
Keekin-Gless (Unavailable) |
| An anthology
from Perth and Kinross edited by Robert Alan Jamieson
and Carl MacDougall (successive William Soutar fellows)
featuring stories and poems by over 75 Perthshire writers.
Some are well known, others not so, what binds them
is a sense of place. It is a celebration of place by
folk who live and work there, by folk who have moved
away yet have maintained their love for it; but mostly
the anthology is a celebration of the folk themselves
- the range of their experience, their emotional life
and the ways in which they have created and maintained
the culture of the area.
Publisher: Perth and Kinross Libraries in 1999. ISBN
0 905452232 |
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| Behind
the Lines (Unavailable) |
| An Anthology
of New Scottish Poetry and Prose. Illustrated by Willie
Rodger. Published by Third Eye Centre, 1989. With assistance
from the Scottish Arts Council.
ISBN 0 906474 88 4. |
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| The
Devil and The Giro (Unavailable) |
Two Centuries
of Scottish Stories collected and Edited by Carl MacDougall.
"The Scottish short story has its roots in an oral tradition where stories
were told to entertain. It is a tradition that has not diminished over the years
and indeed there is today a body of young writers in the forefront of contemporary
literature whose narrative voice is as compelling as that of their illustrious
predecessors. The Devil and the Giro includes stories from all the major Scottish
writers both famous and unsung. Hogg, Stevenson, George MacDonald, Conan Doyle,
Hugh MacDiarmid, Muriel Spark, James Kelman and Alasdair Gray are but a few of
the fifty contributors". Published by Canongate 1989. ISBN 0 86241 207 2 |
