Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet

Richie McCaffery is an independent researcher in the field of Scottish literature, as well as a published poet, with his most recent collection being Passport (2018). He has a PhD (2016) in Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow.

• Acknowledgments and a Note on the PoemsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionRichie McCaffery1 Sydney Goodsir Smith: A Centenary AppreciationPatrick Crotty2 Skail Winds and Scattered Personalities: The Formation of Identity in Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Early PoetryEmma Dymock3 ‘My Elder Brother in the Muse’: Sydney Goodsir Smith and Hugh MacDiarmidMargery Palmer McCulloch4 Refraction, Intertexts and Diegesis in Sydney Goodsir Smith’s under the Eildon TreeChristopher Whyte5 Nationalism in the Poetry of Sydney Goodsir SmithJ. Derrick McClure6 ‘Huntress, Slayer, White Unmortal Queyne’: Women in the Work of Sydney Goodsir SmithMonika Szuba7 ‘Order and Adventure’: Sydney Goodsir Smith’s TranslationsStewart Sanderson8 Sydney Goodsir Smith: Gangrel Rymour, European ScotTom Hubbard9 Unreal Edinburgh: From Li Po to Kynd KittockJohn Corbett10 Reveries of a ‘Gangrel Scriever’: Gowdspink in Reekie and Oliver GoldsmithMario Relich11 ‘Your maist inebriant savant’: A History of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Carotid CornucopiusRichie McCaffery12 The Merrie Life and Dowie Death of Colickie Meg: An Unpublished Carotidian DramaPaul Barnaby13 Sydney Goodsir Smith’s the Wallace in ContextDavid Robb14 Sydney Goodsir Smith, Artist and Art CriticAlan Riach and Alexander MoffatSelective Glossary of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Scots WordsAnnotated Bibliography of Publications by and about Sydney Goodsir SmithIndex