List of Scottish poets
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A list of Scottish poets in English, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, Latin, French, Old Welsh and other languages. This lists includes people living in what is now Scotland before it became so.
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair | |
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 Arisaig Old Cemetery, Burial place of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair |
William Aytoun | |
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- Helen Adam
- Henry Adamson
- Hew Ainslie
- Thomas Aird
- Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal
- Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
- Robert Allan
- Sandra Alland
- Robert Alves
- Alexander Anderson
- Freddie Anderson
- James Anderson
- William Anderson
- Marion Angus
- Aneirin
- J. K. Annand
- William Anstruther
- Alexander Arbuthnot
- Arthur Argo
- John Armstrong
- John Armstrong
- Donna Ashworth
- Thomas Atkinson
- William Auld
- Robert Aytoun
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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Sheena Blackhall | |
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George Buchanan | |
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 Engraving by Jacobus Houbraken |
Robert Burns | |
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 Monument to Robert Burns in Aberdeen, created by Henry Bain Smith |
- Joanna Baillie
- Alexander Bald
- Alexander Balfour
- James Ballantine
- George Bannatyne
- Anne Bannerman
- John Barbour
- John Barclay
- Matthias Barr
- Thomas de Barry
- Meg Bateman
- George Beattie
- James Beattie
- William Beattie
- Beccán mac Luigdech
- John Joy Bell
- John Bellenden
- David MacLeod Black
- Sheena Blackhall
- John Stuart Blackie
- Thomas Blacklock
- Robert Blair
- Blind Harry
- Alan Bold
- Deric Bolton
- Mark Alexander Boyd
- David Boyle
- Frederick Victor Branford
- George Mackay Brown
- Horatio Brown
- Archibald Bruce
- Michael Bruce
- Giolla Críost Brúilingeach
- John Buchan
- Dugald Buchanan
- George Buchanan
- Robert Williams Buchanan
- Rhoda Bulter
- Haldane Burgess
- James Drummond Burns
- Elizabeth Burns
- Robert Burns
- John Burnside
- John Burrell
- Ron Butlin
- Lord Byron
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Thomas Campbell | |
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 Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence c.1810 |
Iain Crichton Smith | |
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- John M. Caie
- Maoilios Caimbeul
- Janet Caird
- Angus Calder
- Norman Cameron
- A. Y. Campbell
- Angus Peter Campbell
- Dorothea Primrose Campbell
- Thomas Campbell
- Sìleas na Ceapaich
- Kate Clanchy
- Thomas A. Clark
- William Cleland
- W. D. Cocker
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Stewart Conn
- Dominic Cooper
- Grace Corbett
- Joe Corrie
- Thomas Craig
- Robert Crawford
- Archibald Crawfurd
- Duncan MacGregor Crerar
- Iain Crichton Smith
- Ian Crockatt
- Helen Cruickshank
- Allan Cunningham
- Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore
- Walterina Cunningham
- James Cuthbertson
- Ivor Cutler
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Imtiaz Dharker | |
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 Dharker at the British Library 12 April 2011 |
Carol Ann Duffy | |
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Robert Ferguson | |
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 Statue of Robert Fergusson outside the Kirk of the Canongate, Edinburgh |
- David Daiches
- Hew Dalrymple
- Harriet Miller Davidson
- John Davidson
- Robert Davidson
- Thomas Davidson
- Edward Davison
- Christine De Luca
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Des Dillon
- David Doig
- Julia Donaldson
- Rob Donn
- Gavin Douglas
- George Brisbane Scott Douglas
- William Drummond of Hawthornden
- William Dudgeon
- Carol Ann Duffy
- William Dunbar
- Hal Duncan
- Douglas Dunn
- George Eglisham
- Jean Elliot
- Henry Erskine
- Jenni Fagan
- William Falconer
- Henry Brougham Farnie
- Vicki Feaver
- Alison Fell
- Robert Fergusson
- John Ferriar
- Alec Finlay
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- John Finlay
- Matthew Fitt
- James Fordyce
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson
- William Forsyth
- William Fowler
- George Sutherland Fraser
- Olive Fraser
- Robin Fulton
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Flora Garry | |
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George Gilfillan | |
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Alasdair Gray | |
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- Richard Gall
- Miriam Gamble
- Alexander Garden
- Robert Garioch
- Flora Garry
- William Gay
- Alexander Geddes
- Magi Gibson
- George Gilfillan
- Robert Gilfillan
- Robert Pearse Gillies
- Duncan Glen
- William Glen
- John Glenday
- Jean Glover
- Robert Gordon of Straloch
- Rody Gorman
- James Graeme
- Lollie Graham
- W. S. Graham
- James Grahame
- James Grainger
- Alex Grant
- David Grant
- Joseph Grant
- Alasdair Gray
- Alexander Gray
- Christian Gray
- David Gray
- James Gray
- Andrew Greig
- John Grieve
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Janet Hamilton memorial | |
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 Janet Hamilton Memorial Fountain, West End Park, Coatbridge |
James Hogg | |
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 Painting by John Watson Gordon |
- Kris Haddow
- Jen Hadfield
- George Halket
- Janet Hamilton
- Patrick Hamilton
- Thomas Hamilton
- William Hamilton (British Army officer)
- William Hamilton (comic poet)
- William Hamilton (Jacobite poet)
- Patrick Hannay
- Scott Hastie
- Susanna Hawkins
- George Campbell Hay
- Gilbert Hay
- Hamish Henderson
- Diana Hendry
- J. F. Hendry
- Robert Henryson
- Thomas Nicoll Hepburn
- W. N. Herbert
- Robert Herring
- William Hershaw
- William Maxwell Hetherington
- Robert Hetrick
- James Hogg
- Richard Holland
- John Home
- Tom Hubbard
- Huchoun
- Alexander Hume
- David Hume of Godscroft
- Patrick Hume of Polwarth
- Anne Hunter
- Pearse Hutchinson
- James Hyslop
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Kathleen Jamie |
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Jackie Kay | |
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David Lyndsay | |
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- R D Laing
- Andrew Lang
- John Lapraik
- William Lauder
- T. S. Law
- Joseph Lee
- Charlotte Lennox
- Tom Leonard
- Frances Leviston
- Eddie Linden
- Jenny Lindsay
- Maurice Lindsay
- Janet Little
- Pippa Little
- Liz Lochhead
- John Logan
- Iain Lom
- John Longmuir
- Roddy Lumsden
- David Lyndsay
- Agnes Lyon
- John Lyon
- Henry Francis Lyte
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Hugh MacDiarmid | |
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Sorley MacLean | |
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William McGonagall | |
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- George MacBeth
- Norman MacCaig
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Andrew Macdonald
- Donald MacDonald, Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
- George MacDonald
- James Macfarlan
- Murdo Macfarlane
- James Pittendrigh Macgillivray
- Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
- Stuart MacGregor
- Artúr Dall Mac Gurcaigh
- Duncan Ban MacIntyre
- James McIntyre
- John William Mackail
- Barbara Mackay
- Charles Mackay
- John Henry Mackay
- Lachlan Mackinnon
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh
- Ewen MacLachlan
- Alasdair Maclean
- Sorley MacLean
- Anne MacLeod
- Joseph Macleod
- Aonghas MacNeacail
- Kevin MacNeil
- Hector Macneill
- Robert Macnish
- James Macpherson
- Jamie Macpherson
- Donnchadh MacRath
- Brian McCabe
- Marion McCready
- Matthew McDiarmid
- Elvis McGonagall
- William McGonagall
- William McIlvanney
- Alastair McIntosh
- Alexander McLachlan
- Robert McLellan
- Hugh McMillan
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Naomi Mitchison | |
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Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown | |
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- Wes Magee
- Richard Maitland
- Willy Maley
- David Mallet
- Peter Manson
- Theodore Martin
- James Maxwell
- John Mayne
- Isabella Fyvie Mayo
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
- Gordon Meade
- Elizabeth Melville
- James Melville
- William Mercer
- William Meston
- William Julius Mickle
- William Miller
- Christian Milne
- Drew Milne
- Elma Mitchell
- Naomi Mitchison
- David Macbeth Moir
- Alexander Montgomerie
- James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
- Edwin Morgan
- J. O. Morgan
- David R. Morrison
- William Motherwell
- Edwin Muir
- Raman Mundair
- John Munro
- Neil Munro
- William Murdoch
- Charles Murray
- Robert Fuller Murray
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Carolina Nairne | |
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 Portrait by John Watson Gordon |
Don Paterson | |
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 Don Paterson reading at Bridlington Poetry Festival |
- Carolina Nairne
- Charles Neaves
- William Neill
- William Nicholson
- Robert Nicoll
- Niall O'Gallagher
- William Henry Ogilvie
- Meta Orred
- George Outram
- Janet Paisley
- Andrew Park
- Alasdair Paterson
- Don Paterson
- Walter Perrie
- Robert Pollok
- Katrina Porteous
- Richard Price
- Alison Prince
- Thomas Pringle
- Pauline Prior-Pitt
- John Purser
- David Purves
- Walter Quin
- Seán Rafferty
- Tessa Ransford
- Alastair Reid
- Robert Rendall
- Alan Riach
- Henry Scott Riddell
- Hugh S. Roberton
- Gary Robertson
- James Robertson
- James Logie Robertson
- Robin Robertson
- John Rolland
- David Rorie
- Uilleam Ros
- Dilys Rose
- Alexander Ross
