Scots Language, Creativity and the Expressive Arts

Section of a textile collage of a landscape

© Gerda Stevenson


Activity 5


To prepare for the tutorial of this unit, do the following:

  1. Select your favourite poem of the Quines collection to bring along to the tutorial and be prepared to say what fascinates you about this poem in particular. If it is written in Scots, try to practice reading it aloud in Scots and think about the impact of the use of Scots on the meaning it has for you.

  2. Think about how you could analyse/discuss this poem using the themes Stevenson listed in section 2.


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