GENERATIONS WORKING TOGETHER: STIRLING, 19 MARCH 2014
Poems to help you talk, Lilias Fraser, Scottish Poetry Library
SOURCES OF FAMILIAR POEMS
Title
publisher
Conn, Stewart (ed)
100 Favourite Scottish Poems
Luath Press, 2006
Conn, Stewart (ed)
100 Favourite Scottish Poems: LARGE PRINT
Luath Press, 2006
Jarvie, Gordon (ed)
100 Favourite Scottish Poems to Read Aloud
Luath Press, 2007
Cope, Wendy (ed)
The Funny Side: 101 humorous poems
Faber, 1998
Reid, Christopher (ed)
Sounds Good: 101 poems to be heard
Faber, 1998
The Nation’s Favourite Poems
BBC Books, 1996
McVicar, Ewan
ABC, My Grannie Caught a Flea: Scots children’s
songs and rhymes
Birlinn, 2011
McVicar, Ewan
Doh Ray Me When Ah Wis Wee, Scots children's
songs and rhymes
Birlinn, 2007
Annand, J K
Bairn Rhymes
Mercat, 1998
Boyd, Bette & Michael Elder
(eds)
A Hantle O Verse: poems in Scots for children
NMS, 2002
OLD FAVOURITES
SCOTS CHILDHOOD RHYMES
eg LEITH AREA
check with your local library to source poems
about your area
Blaikie, Jim
A Laddie Looks at Leith
Astley, Neil (ed)
Angela McMillan (ed)
Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times
Also Being Alive and Being Human
A Little, Aloud: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry for
Reading Aloud to Someone You Care For
Popular themes
Wartime & Home Front
Work & First Jobs
Dancing, Cinema & Going Out
Gardening & Gardeners
Animals & Pets
Seasonal: Hallowe’en, Christmas/Winter, Spring, Summer Outings
Hobby Press, 1993
Bloodaxe, 2002
Chatto & Windus,
2010
SOME CLASSIC HITS..
(ie, very likely to be known/familiar, good to perform, and enjoyable to listen to)
Anderson, Alexander
Belloc, Hilaire
Blake, William
Burns, Robert
Cuddle Doon
Tarantella
The Tyger
A Red, Red, Rose; To A Mouse; Tam o’ Shanter [abridged]; A Man’s A
Man
The Puddock
Leisure
The Listeners
If
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Lion and Albert
Sea Fever
One Perfect Rose
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
The Boy in the Train
poems from A Child’s Garden of Verses
The Sair Finger
Daffodils
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Caie, J M
Davies, W H
De La Mare, Walter
Kipling, Rudyard
Lear, Edward
Marriott, Edgar
Masefield, John
Parker, Dorothy
Service, Robert
Smith, Mary Campbell
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Wingate, Walter
Wordsworth, William
Yeats, W B
AND SOME UNEXPECTED HITS
(modern, less likely to be familiar, but still engaged listeners)
Dove, Rita
Grenfell, Joyce
Lochhead, Liz
Lochhead, Liz
MacDiarmid, Hugh
Mitchell, Adrian
Thomas, Edward
Poem title
Fox Trot Fridays
Stately as a Galleon
Your Aunties
Kidspoem/Bairnsang
The Little White Rose
from Jake’s Amazing Suit
Sowing
Jackie Kay, ‘Grandpa’s Soup’
J M Caie, ‘The Puddock’
Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Camel’s Hump’
Anon, ‘On A Tired Housewife’
Carol Ann Duffy, ‘The Scottish Prince’
Hamish McLaren, ‘Little Sea House’
Liz Lochhead, ‘Your Aunties’
Janet Paisley, ‘Sarah: Fed Up’
suitable for theme
dancing
dancing
growing up
growing up, school
gardening, Scotland
dancing, going out
gardening
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/grandpas-soup
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/puddock
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_hump.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housewife
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/scottish-prince
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/little-sea-house
Liz Lochhead, The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003
(Polygon, 2003)
100 Favourite Scottish Poems, ed Stewart Conn (Luath, 2006)
WEBSITES TO EXPLORE
Scottish Poetry Library
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
for popular poems, poems by subject, and half-remembered poems you’re trying to find
See ‘For Carers’ section for a selection of popular, out of copyright poems by season
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/carers
Poetry Archive
www.poetryarchive.org
UK site, good source of poems to explore, easy to search
Poetry Foundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Useful source of poems online – lots of contemporary US, but also some ‘classic’ English verse. Easy to search
by subject, as well as poet, title etc.
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Great source of out-of-copyright texts – as long as you know which poet you’re looking for.
Your library authority collections of local material
eg Edinburgh Capital Collections
www.capitalcollections.org.uk
Digitised photos and images of Edinburgh over the years (mainly buildings rather than people)
SCRAN
www.scran.ac.uk/login/librarycard.php
You may be able to use your public library card to log in to SCRAN free – images from museums, galleries,
archives and media about Scottish life and culture
LIBRARIES
Remember your LOCAL LIBRARY can help supply the books of poems or photos, CDs of songs, and local history
information you need!
In Edinburgh, remember to explore the Edinburgh Room and the Music Library.
Check the Scottish Poetry Library’s website to
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search poems by theme or ‘tag’ http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/tags/all
search poems for a particular word http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/search-poem
The Scottish Poetry Library
5 Crichton’s Close, off Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk