Category: Scottish poetry
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All-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems
_____ _____ The poems in this collection are on wrestling—the collegiate and amateur styles—but also how we wrestle with life, where we find wrestling in our lives, plus our gods, prophets and heroes past, those who have wrestled the classic bouts. It is modern and boundary-busting, and at the […]
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Lite Verse with No Cholesterol or Trans Fat, by 33 Already Dead Poets, 6 Unknown Anyway
~~~~~ The following poems are selected from the 1920 collection The Book of Humorous Verse, edited by Carolyn Wells (1862-1942). Each poet is represented only once, and in alphabetical order. However, links are provided so that you can investigate each one. ~~~~~ by L. J. Bridgman (1857-1931) […]
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Verse for Veterans: First Foe to Flanders Fields
by Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, […]
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The All Time Top Ten Greatest Poems of Scotland
In their article called Jeelie Piece Song is among our best poems, The Sunday Times of Scotland reports that “listeners of BBC Radio Scotland” have chosen Scotland’s favorite all time top 20 poems. These are included in the new book, edited by Stewart Conn, titled 100 Favourite Scottish Poems: The Nation’s […]
Clattery MacHinery on Poetry 