View from the Bench: My Life in Poetry

View from the Bench celebrates the Life in Poetry of Lillias Scott Forbes, a nonagenarian poet, daughter of the composer Francis George Scott. Her poems in Scots and English goes back to 1936 and her last poem date August 2011, representing a cross-section of her 75 years of poetry writing. 'As a result of her father's friendships, she mixed with acclaimed poets from an early age and was encouraged by them in her own writing - W.S. Graham, Hugh MacDiarmid, Dylan Thomas and, Willa and Edwin Muirs, to mention only a few. Her poetry described her life in Britain, France, South Africa and specially her feelings for Scotland. It is clearly an autobiographic poetry book. And as fellow poet Eleanor Livingstone, said - the passing of years and of those earlier generations obviously hasn't dimmed Lillias Scott Forbes' passion for poetry and she expresses herself delighted that her muse hasn't fled entirely 'at her advanced age'. See more