Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems

Download or read book Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems written by and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the number of Gaelic speakers has declined during the twentieth century, the last forty years have seen an astonishing flowering of Scottish Gaelic poetry, much of it in the modern idiom. This bilingual anthology provides a selection of the best work of poets who have contributed most to that revival--Sorely Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and Donald MacAulay.