Collected Poems: New Annotated Edition
Author: Sydney Goodsir Smith
ISBN: 9780714550817
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 29 Jul 2025
Pages: 269 Format: Paperback / softback
The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production, deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.
The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect - from Skail Wind , first published in 1941, to the moving poems of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical poems of his later years - show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well.
ISBN: 9780714550817
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 29 Jul 2025
Pages: 269 Format: Paperback / softback
The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production, deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.
The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect - from Skail Wind , first published in 1941, to the moving poems of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical poems of his later years - show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well.
