Collected Poems: Introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid

By Sydney Goodsir Smith

The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine 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 verse collections of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical compositions of his later years - show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well, and are a testament to the inventive genius of his mind.

Contains notes and a full glossary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714550817
• ISBN13: 9780714550817
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Calder Publications
• Length: 269 Pages