Mair leaves fae Vagaland

Mair leaves fae Vagaland

by Thomas Alexander Robertson

1965

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Poet of Shetland - Vagaland, along with William J. Tait, is the most significant of the Shetland poets of the mid-20th century. http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/t-robertson His constant passion for maintaining the continuity of local tradition… was no mere antiquarian indulgence. It was fired by a real conviction, founded on personal experience, that the past revealed true insights into the art of living; that out of the lives of ordinary folk, engaged in their daily tasks and sustained by the warmth of close communities, there emerged basic truths about the human situation. And his poems were evocations of that life and affirmations of those truths.