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J. Derrick McClure, M.A. , M.Litt. , is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Aberdeen. Publications include Why Scots Matters , Scots and its Literature , Language, Poetry and Nationhood ,Doric: the Dialect of North-East Scotland in the Varieties of English Around the World series , the chapter English in Scotland in the Cambridge History of the English Language , and over eighty articles on Scottish linguistic and literary topics in various journals, festschrifts and conference proceedings volumes.

He is Chairman of the Forum for Research in the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, and member of the Scottish Parliamentary Cross-Party Group on the Scots Language, the Language Committee and the International Committee of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, the Scottish Dictionaries Council and the steering committee of the National Library of Scotland's Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation ; he is also Editor of the annual journal Scottish Language.

His recent and current research and publication are principally on Scots as a medium for literary translation and on Middle Scots poetic prosody. Poetic translations include Scotland o Gael an Lawlander , the Scots versions in Meas air Chrannaibh, Fruit on Brainches by Aonghas Pïdraig Caimbeul, Stornoway , and translations from Cecco Angiolieri, Frïdric Mistral and Alfred Kolleritsch.

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J. Derrick McClure

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Books from J. Derrick McClure

The Edinburgh Companion to Scots

Languages of Scotland

Scotland as Science Fiction

Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries

Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work

The Scots Language: Planning For Modern Usage

Lallans 101: Yuil 2022

Doric: The dialect of North-East Scotland (Varieties of English Around the World)

Language, Poetry and Nationhood: Scots as a Poetic Language from 1878 to the Present

Wunds That Blaw Sae Roch: 50 Years o Lallans Prose

Lallans 102: Beltane/Lammas 2023

A Kist o Skinklan Things

The Scots Language: Its Place in Education

Minority Languages in Central Scotland

Lallans 103: Yuiltide 2023

Why Scots matters

Scots and its Literature

East Meets West

Sangs That Sing Sae Sweit

Sangs tae Eimhir