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William Hershaw

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Born: March 18 1957

William Hershaw is a Scottish poet, playwright, musician and Scots language activist.

Hershaw’s first major collection of poetry, The Cowdenbeath Man, Scottish Cultural Press, 1998, was a series of elegies written about the death of the coal mining industry in Central Fife. He won the Callum MacDonald Award for Winter Song in 2005, and The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry in 2011.

In 2012 he reconvened The Bowhill Players as a musical ensemble performing at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writing new musical settings for Corrie’s poetry.

His most recent work includes a Scots version of The Tempest and Michael , a ballad play about the medieval polymath Michael Scot of Balwearie.

William Hershaw

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Born: March 18 1957

William Hershaw is a Scottish poet, playwright, musician and Scots language activist.

Hershaw’s first major collection of poetry, The Cowdenbeath Man, Scottish Cultural Press, 1998, was a series of elegies written about the death of the coal mining industry in Central Fife. He won the Callum MacDonald Award for Winter Song in 2005, and The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry in 2011.

In 2012 he reconvened The Bowhill Players as a musical ensemble performing at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writing new musical settings for Corrie’s poetry.

His most recent work includes a Scots version of The Tempest and Michael , a ballad play about the medieval polymath Michael Scot of Balwearie.

Books from William Hershaw

A Tongue in Yer Heid

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Tammy Norrie: The Hoose Daemon of Seahouses

Lallans 95: Yuil 2019

The Sair Road

Michael: A Ballad Play in Scots

Lallans Nummer 29: Mairtinmas 1987

Saul Vaigers

Wunds That Blaw Sae Roch: 50 Years o Lallans Prose

Lallans 102: Beltane/Lammas 2023

The Eildon Tree, Issue 3: Spring 2000

Lallans 100: Simmer 2022

Lallans 103: Yuiltide 2023

Postcairds fae Woodwick Mill: Orkney Poems in Scots

Sangs That Sing Sae Sweit

Lallans 101: Yuil 2022

Jennie Lee's Homework Project

The Cowdenbeath Man