William Hershaw

William Hershaw (born Newport on Tey, Fife, 19 Mairch 1957) is a Scots makar, playwricht, muisicker and Scots leid activist.

Hershaw's foremaist collect o poyetrie, The Cowdenbeath Man, (Scottish Cultural Press, 1998) wis a serie of elegies scrieved anent the clyte o the coal minin industrie in Central Fife. He wan the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award fur Winter Song in 2005, an The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry in 2011.

In 2012 he reconvened The Bowhill Players (a drama company first foonded bi playwricht Joe Corrie durin the General Strike o 1926) as a muisical ensemble performin at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, scrievin new muisical settins fur Corrie's poyetrie.

His maist recent wark haes a Scots version of The Tempest and Michael (both 2015), a ballant play anent the medieval polymath Michael Scot o Balwearie.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Home - Scottish Poetry Library".
↑ "Author details - Scottish Book Trust".
↑ Bibliography: Poetry Collections: Four Fife Poets/Fower Brigs Ti A Kinrick (with John Brewster, Harvey Holton, Tom Hubbard, Harvey Holton), Aberdeen University Press, 1988; The Cowdenbeath Man ,Scottish Cultural Press, 1997; ISBN 1 898218 68 4 Fifty Fife Sonnets/Makars, Akros Publications, 2005 Johnny Aathin, Windfall Publications, 2010; ISBN 978 0 9557264 3 9 Happyland, Fras Publications, 2011 Postcairds Fae Woodwick Mill, Orkney Poems in Scots, Grace Note, 2015, ISBN 978-1-907676-62-8 Stars are the Aisles, Neepheid Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9956504-0-4; Buirds, Roncadora Press, 2017 Selected Poetry Anthologies: Dream State - The New Scottish Poets, Polygon, 1994; Scotlands - Poets and the Nation, Carcanet, 2004; Skein of Geese - Poems from the 2008 Stanza Festival, Stanza Publications; The Smeddum Test, 21st Century Poems in Scots, Kennedy and Boyd, 2012; Scotia Nova, Luath Press, 2014 Drama: The Tempest, translated in Scots, Grace Note, 2016, ISBN 978-1-907676-75-8 Michael Scot of Balwearie, A Ballad Play in Scots, Grace Note, 2016, ISBN 978-1-907676-76-5 The Iolaire,, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, 2016 Jennie Lee’s History Project,, Grace Note, 2017 Novel: Tammy Norrie, The House Daemon Of Seahouses, Grace Note Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-1-907676-43-7 Music: A Fish Laid At The Door, Dances With Whippets Records/Birnam CD; 2002 A Song Cycle For Craigencalt Ecology Centre, Dances With Whippets Records/Birnam CD; 2009 Cage Load Of Men - The Joe Corrie Project, Bowhill Players, Fife Council/Fras Publications/ Birnam CD; 2013 Education: Teaching Scots Language, Learning Teaching Scotland, 2002; Scots Language and Literature - Examples and Activities, Learning Teaching Scotland, 2002.

[1] "Home - Scottish Poetry Library".

[2] "Author details - Scottish Book Trust".

[3] Bibliography: Poetry Collections: Four Fife Poets/Fower Brigs Ti A Kinrick (with John Brewster, Harvey Holton, Tom Hubbard, Harvey Holton), Aberdeen University Press, 1988; The Cowdenbeath Man ,Scottish Cultural Press, 1997; ISBN 1 898218 68 4 Fifty Fife Sonnets/Makars, Akros Publications, 2005 Johnny Aathin, Windfall Publications, 2010; ISBN 978 0 9557264 3 9 Happyland, Fras Publications, 2011 Postcairds Fae Woodwick Mill, Orkney Poems in Scots, Grace Note, 2015, ISBN 978-1-907676-62-8 Stars are the Aisles, Neepheid Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9956504-0-4; Buirds, Roncadora Press, 2017 Selected Poetry Anthologies: Dream State - The New Scottish Poets, Polygon, 1994; Scotlands - Poets and the Nation, Carcanet, 2004; Skein of Geese - Poems from the 2008 Stanza Festival, Stanza Publications; The Smeddum Test, 21st Century Poems in Scots, Kennedy and Boyd, 2012; Scotia Nova, Luath Press, 2014 Drama: The Tempest, translated in Scots, Grace Note, 2016, ISBN 978-1-907676-75-8 Michael Scot of Balwearie, A Ballad Play in Scots, Grace Note, 2016, ISBN 978-1-907676-76-5 The Iolaire,, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, 2016 Jennie Lee’s History Project,, Grace Note, 2017 Novel: Tammy Norrie, The House Daemon Of Seahouses, Grace Note Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-1-907676-43-7 Music: A Fish Laid At The Door, Dances With Whippets Records/Birnam CD; 2002 A Song Cycle For Craigencalt Ecology Centre, Dances With Whippets Records/Birnam CD; 2009 Cage Load Of Men - The Joe Corrie Project, Bowhill Players, Fife Council/Fras Publications/ Birnam CD; 2013 Education: Teaching Scots Language, Learning Teaching Scotland, 2002; Scots Language and Literature - Examples and Activities, Learning Teaching Scotland, 2002.

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