Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is the first published selection of the work of Scottish poet Marion Angus, coming more than fifty years after Maurice Lindsay's Selected Poems of Marion Angus. New biographical information reveals her highly cultured upbringing, strong, resilient personality and personal sacrifice. Extracts from her 1890s prose 'diaries' and letters, neither of which have previously been collected, reveal her 'mordant wit', her love of language, and the extent of her involvement in the literary scene in the 1930s. Newspaper reports give an insight into her attitude to the Scots language. Because her Scots is simple and her themes are timeless - there can be no-one who has not 'launched and looed and sinned' - her 'bonnie sang' is accessible to the modern reader, which may explain why her poem 'Mary's Sang' was placed on the long list of BBC Scotland's The Nation's Favourite Poem.
