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Tom Leonard


Born
in Glasgow, Scotland
August 22, 1944

Died
December 21, 2018

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Tom Leonard (born 1944) was a Scottish poet, writer and critic. He is best known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News. His work frequently dealt with the relationship between language, class and culture.

Leonard also wrote plays, sound poetry, political polemic and a biography of the 19th-century Scottish poet James ‘B.V.’ Thomson, Places of the Mind.
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Average rating: 4.18 · 131 ratings · 21 reviews · 31 distinct works
Intimate Voices Selected Wo...

4.09 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions
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Outside the Narrative

4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Reports from the Present: S...

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Radical Renfrew: Poetry fro...

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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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Poems: First Published 1973

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Nora's Place and Other Poem...

3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000
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Places of the Mind

4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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passing through

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Situations Theoretical and ...

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Being a Human Being and oth...

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