Richie McCaffery is a freelance scholar and poet with a Ph.D in Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow. In 2020 he edited Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work (Brill, 2020).

• Introduction : Growing for, or through, War?PART 1: Combatants1 ‘Mak siccar!’: Hamis h Henderson (1919–2002)2 Committed and Confessional: Sorley MacLean (1911–1996)3 ‘The Secret Hollow’: George Campbell Hay (1915–1984)4 ‘Private Morgan’ and ‘Geerie’ the Kriegy: Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) and Robert Garioch (1909–1981)5 The Second Rank: Other Scottish Poets in the ForcesPART 2: Non-Combatants6 ‘The war for libertie!’ The Cases of Douglas Young (1913–1973) and Norman MacCaig (1910–1996)7 The Home Front: Scottish Civilian Poets of World War Two8 The Old Guard: Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) and Edwin Muir (1888–1959)9 ‘It does not mak siccar you ken aboot weemin’: Scottish Women Poets of World War TwoConclusion: ‘The Harvest’BibliographyIndex

Richie McCaffery is a freelance scholar and poet with a Ph.D in Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow. In 2020 he edited Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work (Brill, 2020).

• Introduction : Growing for, or through, War?PART 1: Combatants1 ‘Mak siccar!’: Hamis h Henderson (1919–2002)2 Committed and Confessional: Sorley MacLean (1911–1996)3 ‘The Secret Hollow’: George Campbell Hay (1915–1984)4 ‘Private Morgan’ and ‘Geerie’ the Kriegy: Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) and Robert Garioch (1909–1981)5 The Second Rank: Other Scottish Poets in the ForcesPART 2: Non-Combatants6 ‘The war for libertie!’ The Cases of Douglas Young (1913–1973) and Norman MacCaig (1910–1996)7 The Home Front: Scottish Civilian Poets of World War Two8 The Old Guard: Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) and Edwin Muir (1888–1959)9 ‘It does not mak siccar you ken aboot weemin’: Scottish Women Poets of World War TwoConclusion: ‘The Harvest’BibliographyIndex

Richie McCaffery is a freelance scholar and poet with a Ph.D in Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow. In 2020 he edited Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work (Brill, 2020).

• Introduction : Growing for, or through, War?PART 1: Combatants1 ‘Mak siccar!’: Hamis h Henderson (1919–2002)2 Committed and Confessional: Sorley MacLean (1911–1996)3 ‘The Secret Hollow’: George Campbell Hay (1915–1984)4 ‘Private Morgan’ and ‘Geerie’ the Kriegy: Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) and Robert Garioch (1909–1981)5 The Second Rank: Other Scottish Poets in the ForcesPART 2: Non-Combatants6 ‘The war for libertie!’ The Cases of Douglas Young (1913–1973) and Norman MacCaig (1910–1996)7 The Home Front: Scottish Civilian Poets of World War Two8 The Old Guard: Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) and Edwin Muir (1888–1959)9 ‘It does not mak siccar you ken aboot weemin’: Scottish Women Poets of World War TwoConclusion: ‘The Harvest’BibliographyIndex