Top ten "other" Scottish poems

For the Times (London), Gerard Carruthers, editor of a new collection of Scottish Poems, selected his top ten Scottish poems not by the famous Robert Burns.

One poem on his list:

Tom Leonard, "A Summer’s Day"

The great Glasgow love poem where the speaker has difficulty expressing his feeling but the emotion says it all.

Yir eyes ur

eh

a mean yir

pirrit this wey

ah a thingk yir

byewtifl like ehm

fact

fact a thingk yir

ach a luvyi that’s

thahts

jist thi wey it iz like

thahts ehm

aw ther iz ti say

Read about all 10 selected Scottish poems not by Robert Burns.

--Marshal Zeringue