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Poetry Web Links
This web link will take you to a collection of the works of William McGonagall where you will find all his poems, all the biographies, and more besides.
Visit the 'Gateway to Scotland's National Collection of Burns Treasures . . . . . . .'
This web link will take you to the Scottish Poetry Library which is a very useful resource
for poems, poets and poetry events in Scotland.
This website, The Lordship & Barony of Kilmarnock , presents an area of Ayrshire, Scotland, which has an incomparable history.
The site portrays the lives led by some of Scotland's great heroes and heroines, saints and sinners
- Lords Kilmarnock, William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots and Robert Burns - in the history of that feudal Lordship & Barony.
The Poetry Scotland web site, from diehard publishers, Callander, Scotland, provides space for opinion, a complete Index to the contents, a Language/Dialect Map, Poets' Portraits and information on how to submit poems to the broadsheet.
There is a Newsboard containing letters and poems. The site offers advice on how to write and submit to magazines with fun Competitions and an Editorial.
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Who are the Scots?
Donald Crisp (1880 - 1974) Born in Aberfeldy, emmigrated to the U.S. in 1906. Despite having acted in more than 400 holywood films, being an accomplished director and taking a leading role in film financing, Crisp became known as Scotland's forgotten actor. Roles include 'Birth of a Nation', 'Intolerance', 'National Velvet', starring with Elizabeth Taylor, and 'How Green is my Valley' for which he was awarded an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in 1941.
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