Celtic poems

[that kilt guy]

I have to read a poem about the human condition for my humanities class and I thought why not see if I can find a Celtic one? The only criteria that my instructor requires is that it must be by a well-known published author. So if you guys have any favorite Scottish poems you are willing to share I'm open to suggestions.

[skauwt]

heres a link to a poet that lived in my hometown coatbridge over 100 years ago( back then she was in a small section call langloan) not as well known as burns but still good enough to be remembered till this day


http://www.monklands.co.uk/memories/janethamilton.htm

[Alan H]

If you want a "celtic " Poet, you can not go wrong with Seamus Heaney.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/l...eaney-bio.html

I remember, a few years ago, Seamus Heaney came to the area where I lived, and my wife got me tickets to go see him. He read aloud, the first hundred or so lines of "Beowulf" in what scholars would guess to be the closest approximation of the Norse/Pre-English language that Beowulf was written in.

It was like two thousand years of time just *vanished* and for a few seconds, it felt like there were no walls in that place, and the wind blew through off the moors, and Grendel lived in the darkness where you couldn't see. Magical.

Seamus Heaneys poems are very very readable, and very human.

http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/heaney.php

Read the two poems from Clearances 3 and 5. THAT is the Human Condition. YouTube has some videos of Seamus Heaney reading his stuff. I have three of Heaney's collected works and there is utterly fantastic stuff in there. I am a HUGE fan.

A fantastic Scottish Poet that I am coming to really like is George Mackay Brown

http://www.georgemackaybrown.co.uk/

You can hear him reading some of his stuff, here:

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetrya...do?poetId=1539