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Smith, Sydney Goodsir
Under the Eildon Tree: a poem in 24 elegies
Frontispiece drawing of the author by Denis Peploe.
(Edinburgh: Serif, 1948)
The SPL also has a copy of the 2nd edition, published by Serif in 1954.

Smith, Sydney Goodsir
Collected poems 1941-1975
With an introduction by Hugh McDiarmid
(London: John Calder, 1975)

Smith, Sydney Goodsir
Under the Eildon Tree: a poem in 24 elegies
Audio tape. Introduction by Alexander Scott; read by Alexander Scott and Donald Campbell.
(Glasgow: Scotsoun, 1977)

Smith, Sydney Goodsir
The Deevil's waltz: Sydney Goodsir Smith reads his poetry
LP, with an introduction by John Montague, and a cover photograph of the author. Includes elegies I, III, V, XIII and XXIII.
(Dublin: Claddagh, 1978)

Smith, Sydney Goodsir
The drawings of Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet
collected by Ian Begg; edited by Joy Hendry
Published on behalf of the New Auk Society. Includes poems, photographs of Sydney, and introductions to his artwork and life. With index including provenance of the drawings.
(Edinburgh: Chapman/Tuckwell Press, 1998)

For Sydney Goodsir Smith
A book of tributes published following Smith's sudden death in January 1975, with contributions from: Robert Garioch, Alexander Scott, Norman MacCaig, David Murison, Hugh
MacDiarmid, George Mackay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith, Sorley MacLean, W.R. Aitken, Denis Peploe
(Loanhead: M. Macdonald, 1975)

Saltire Review
vol. 1, no.1, April 1954
MacCaig, Norman: 'The Poetry of Sydney Goodsir Smith', pp.14-19

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Poets' Pub

Sydney Goodsir Smith
Under The Eildon Tree


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