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David C. Purdie

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David C. Purdie was a Scottish poet. He worked as a joiner in Edinburgh and as an insurance agent in Midlothian, his experience of life in these roles informing his work. He sang for 25 years as a tenor in The Kevock Choir, and is a member of the Penicuik Writers’ Group and the School of Poets. A native Scots speaker, Purdie frequently reviewed for Lallans, the Scots language magazine. He was a member of the committee responsible for the commissioning and placing of the statue of Robert Fergusson in Edinburgh’s Canongate.

His poetry has appeared in many magazines, and has won a handful of prizes, mostly for Scots language work. A first collection, The Biggers, was published by Calder Wood Press in 2008.

Purdie has spent a lot of time working on putting other poetry into Scots, trying his hand at the Dorset dialect poetry of William Barnes, the English of Goldsmith and Coleridge, and the ancient Brythonic of Aneirin, the latter being published by Calder Wood as The Godothin in 2009.

David C. Purdie

2.6/5 ( ratings)
David C. Purdie was a Scottish poet. He worked as a joiner in Edinburgh and as an insurance agent in Midlothian, his experience of life in these roles informing his work. He sang for 25 years as a tenor in The Kevock Choir, and is a member of the Penicuik Writers’ Group and the School of Poets. A native Scots speaker, Purdie frequently reviewed for Lallans, the Scots language magazine. He was a member of the committee responsible for the commissioning and placing of the statue of Robert Fergusson in Edinburgh’s Canongate.

His poetry has appeared in many magazines, and has won a handful of prizes, mostly for Scots language work. A first collection, The Biggers, was published by Calder Wood Press in 2008.

Purdie has spent a lot of time working on putting other poetry into Scots, trying his hand at the Dorset dialect poetry of William Barnes, the English of Goldsmith and Coleridge, and the ancient Brythonic of Aneirin, the latter being published by Calder Wood as The Godothin in 2009.

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Lallans 96: Simmer 2020

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Lallans 94: Simmer 2019

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Lallans 95: Yuil 2019

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Lallans 93: Yuill 2018

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Lallans Nummer 47: Mairtinmas 1996

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Lallans Nummer 45: Mairtinmas 1995

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The Godothin: A Version in Scots of Aneirin's Y Gododdin

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