James Mccash News Today

Author of Bessie Dunlop the Witch o Dalry wins prestigious Scots poetry award

ST ANDREW’S Day was our prompt. The annual McCash Scots Poetry Competition, run jointly by Alan Riach from the University of Glasgow and Lesley…

The Herald has long backed Scottish writers, whether writing in Scots or standard English. In recent years, young Scots poet and Herald columnist…

St Andrew’s Day offers a pleasant literary challenge to poets writing in Scots. Announced today, the annual McCash Scots Poetry Competition, run…

The McCash Poetry Prize James McCash, the founder of the McCash Poetry Prize competition, was a graduate of the University of Glasgow. A trained engineer, in the 1970s he won a Glasgow Herald poetry competition which had as its theme the Walter Scott quotation, ‘This is my own, my native land!’ The competition was not specifically for poetry in Scots, but his winning entry used a modern interpretation of classical sixteenth-century Scots to admirable effect. Subsequently Mr McCash gave a g...