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Published in 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems has been called 'epoch-making'. [1] The poems were first published as an insert in Glasgow University Magazine. [9]In 1984, he released Intimate Voices, a selection of his work from 1965 onwards including poems and essays on William Carlos Williams and "the nature of hierarchical diction in Britain."
The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [ 3 ]
William Angus McIlvanney (25 November 1936 – 5 December 2015) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet. [1] He was known as Gus by friends and acquaintances. [2]
A page from The Bannatyne Manuscript, the major source for Scottish Medieval and Early Modern poetry. Poetry of Scotland includes all forms of verse written in Brythonic, Latin, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, French, English and Esperanto and any language in which poetry has been written within the boundaries of modern Scotland, or by Scottish people.
Agree almost entirely, expect I believe it should be re-designated as Glaswegian Scots — Glaswegian English being the language of, say, the Scottish media produced in the city, but not of the average people. 86.175.90.153 08:59, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
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Come back again, hen: a Silver Jubilee poem (1977) Cream of the dross (1979) Cream of the crackers (1980) Cream of the corn (1981) Cream of the crop (1982) More Punishing Poems from Walter McCorrisken – Scotland's Worst Poet (1984) Porridge in my pibroch (1994) audiobook; Tadpoles in tenements : trials of a taxidermist (1997) A Wee Dribble of ...
Here's the bird that never flew Here's the tree that never grew Here's the bell that never rang Here's the fish that never swam. St Mungo is also said to have preached a sermon containing the words Lord, Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word and the praising of thy name. This was abbreviated to "Let Glasgow Flourish" and adopted as ...