Scots Poems to be Read Aloud

STUART McHARDY might be described as a lad o pairts - writer, musician, storyteller, folklorist, historian, linguist, poet, past president of the Pictish Arts Society, historical adviser to Edinburgh City Art Centre's Quest for Camelot exhibition in 2001/2 - and is known to lecture on many aspects of Scottish history and culture at the drop of a hat, or the pop of a cork. To date, McHardy has had five of his own books published, Scotland: Myth, Legend and Folklore, Strange Secrets of Ancient Scotland, Tales of Whisky and Smuggling, The Wild Haggis an The Greetin-faced Nyaff and Edinburgh and Leith Pub Guide. He introduced and edited the bestselling Scots Poems to be Read Aloud and for 5 years in the 1990s was Director of the Scots Language Resource Centre in Perth. He now lives in Edinburgh with the lovely (and ever-tolerant) Sandra and their talented son Roderick.

• Ma Mither Tung The Whistle Freedom The Boy on the Train Tam o the Linn Sir Patrick Spens Shore Crab The Queer Folk i the Shaws pure radge The Wee, Wee Man See Ye Johnnie Comin? The Puddock Laid o Cockpen The Pest The Nicht is Neir Gone Saunders MacSiccar Thomas The Rhymer The Annunity The Mairch o the Legions The Farmers Ingle The Station -Master's Dochter The Widow's Lament The Packman Fitba Cliche The Stane Tam Lin Oor Neighbour's Pianny Willie Chisholm The Lowden Sabath Morn Drinking Drams Allison Gross The unfortunate Clown The Getherin o the Bawbees Halloween Waitin on the Glesca Train Johnnie Dowie's Ale Tibbie Fowler The Lum Hat Wantin the Croun Robin Tamson's Smiddy History-Wha's Story?