Aeschylus'' Agamemnon in Scots

About William Imray

WILLIAM IMRAY grew up in a home where Scots was the spoken language. His mothers father was the chief male influence a monumental mason in wood and stone a designer of gravestones whose enthusiasm for Robert Burns gave William from an early age encouragement to learn recite and perform Burnss poems and songs. He later learned a number of languages concentrating his delight in their poetry and song traditions across centuries and carried into his teaching of Greek and Latin a predilection for the ancient classics which is even less fashionable or acceptable in the 21st century than it was in the 20th century when he was teaching. He took early retirement when the writing of poetry in Scots and English was beginning to occupy his attention more eagerly than the teaching which was his profession. His poems were published in Lines Review Orbis Outposts Prospice the Aberdeen Free Press and Journal and Leopard Magazine and his first published book of poems Fools Cycle appeared in 1989.ALAN RIACH (b.1957) Poet and Professor of Scottish Literature Glasgow University. Born Airdrie Lanarkshire studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow worked at the University of Waikato New Zealand 1986-2000 returning to Scotland 2001. Books include poetry: The Winter Book (2017) Homecoming (2009) Wild Blue: Selected Poems (2014) The MacDiarmid Memorandum (2023); criticism: Representing Scotland (2005) Hugh MacDiarmids Epic Poetry (1991) and co-authored with Alexander Moffat Arts of Resistance: Poets Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland (2008) described in the TLS as a landmark book. Luath Press also publish his 734-page Scottish Literature: An Introduction (2022) described in The Times as magisterial.