George Campbell Hay (Dersa Mac Iain Dhersa) - Collected Poems and Songs

Michel Byrne did a braw an skeelie service tae the repuit o ane o Scotlan's foremaist makars o the twintiet yearhunnert wi his tentie editin! Nou, houbeit, we hae aa the bardrie o George Campbell Hay, wi owersetting o the Gaelic (an o the ither leids forbye), lang screids pang-fu o wittins anent his life an his makar's airt, commentators on ilka sang an ballant, listins o the place-names an (an eikin tae the first edeition) fowk-names at kythes in his screivins, an aa in a single (aabeit wechtie) buik at aabody can affuird tae hae. Aabody wi a hert-luve for Scotland an its leids bude tae hae't an aa, for there nae dout o Hay's staunin as a giant amang the giants o the Scottish Renaissance. A thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life -- Ronald Black An immense achievement! long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively -- a model of scholarship lightly worn. -- Thomas Owen Clancy The editor seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. -- Meg Bateman [Hay] is matchless as a poet of fishing and the sea. -- James Robertson Michel Byrne did a braw an skeelie service tae the repuit o ane o Scotlan's foremaist makars o the twintiet yearhunnert wi his tentie editin! Nou, houbeit, we hae aa the bardrie o George Campbell Hay, wi owersetting o the Gaelic (an o the ither leids forbye), lang screids pang-fu o wittins anent his life an his makar's airt, commentators on ilka sang an ballant, listins o the place-names an (an eikin tae the first edeition) fowk-names at kythes in his screivins, an aa in a single (aabeit wechtie) buik at aabody can affuird tae hae. Aabody wi a hert-luve for Scotland an its leids bude tae hae't an aa, for there nae dout o Hay's staunin as a giant amang the giants o the Scottish Renaissance. A thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life An immense achievement! long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively -- a model of scholarship lightly worn. The editor seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. [Hay] is matchless as a poet of fishing and the sea.