This selected works of Sorley MacLean brings together published
poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of Poetry. The poems will
be given in their original Gaelic with English translations and
introduced by Angus Peter Campbell and Aonghas Mac Neacail. Sorley
MacLean was born on the island of Raasay in 1911. He was brought up
within a family and community immersed in Gaelic language and
culture, particularly song. He studied English at Edinburgh
University from 1929, taking a first-class honours degree. Despite
this influence, he eventually adopted Gaelic as the medium most
appropriate for his poetry. He translated much of his own work into
English, opening it up to a wider public. He fought in North Africa
during World War II, before taking up a career in teaching, holding
posts on Mull, in Edinburgh and finally as Head Teacher at Plockton
High School. Amongst other awards and honours, he received the
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1990. He died in 1996 at the age
of 85.
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