Lallans 102: Beltane/Lammas 2023

Lallans #102

by William Hershaw (Editor), Elaine Morton (Editor Emeritus), Brendan McCluskey (Cover illustration)

Contents

Editorial: Jock Tamson's Bairns
The Sangschaw 2023: Lord Braxfield's Wittens
The Galloway Hoard bi Finola Scott
Oran don Oighre bi J. Derrick McClure
Aince bi Jamie Purves
Leet o Sangschaw Winners
The Annivairsary Anthologies
The Young Scots Writer award 2023
An Interview wi Frieda Morrison
Shewin Wumman an Sma Warld bi Irene Howat
The Snaws Yestreen bi David Bleiman
Three Scots Haiku an Bein a Wid Tink bi Marcus Keaveney
The Iron Room, Pairt 3 bi W.S. Milne
Fower Poems fae Eco Cheil bi Alistair McLeish
Sea Room an Hunger Stanes bi Craig Aitchison
Ooergless bi Ian Nimmo White
Glesga Covid Prayer bi Maggie Elliott
Whit Pele Said Tae Ali bi Jim Aitken
Stirling Brig bi Gordon D. Moodie
Sindrins bi Walter Perrie
Epiphany an Doon the Pit bi Kevin Connolly
Arnolfini's Luve Bomb an Ane Repone tae Arnolfini bi Frances Robson
Oedipus bi Jim Roddie
Burns, Hamish and Sang, Pairt 3, bi Fred Freeman
The Airlie Monument an Luik in the Gless bi George T. Watt
Three Poems bi Hamish Scott
The Big C Rollercoaster bi Rose MacGregor
Turradh bi Nicole Le Marie
Mum bi Jacqueline Tweddle

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2023

About the author

William Hershaw is a Scottish poet, playwright, musician and Scots language activist.

He graduated with an MA in English from the University of Edinburgh and taught English at Viewforth High in Kirkcaldy.

Hershaw’s first major collection of poetry, The Cowdenbeath Man, Scottish Cultural Press, 1998, was a series of elegies written about the death of the coal mining industry in Central Fife. He won the Callum MacDonald Award for Winter Song in 2005, and The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry in 2011.

In 2012 he reconvened The Bowhill Players (originally a drama company founded by playwright Joe Corrie during the General Strike of 1926) as a musical ensemble performing at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writing new musical settings for Corrie’s poetry.

His most recent work includes a Scots version of The Tempest and Michael (both 2015), a ballad play about the medieval polymath Michael Scot of Balwearie.

Hershaw lives in Lochgelly.