Collected Poems

The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production, deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature. The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect from Skail Wind, first published in 1941, to the moving poems of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical poems of his later years show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well.