Voice of the Bard, The

The bards profiled are ordinary men. Crofters, fishermen, seamen, soldiers, weavers, tinkers, roadmen, housewives and even a television personality. Their work is proof that the ancient bardic tradition is still alive in Scotland today. This is a book of great originality and importance to new Scotland and is illustrated with over two hundred previously unpublished photographs and a wide variety of song-poems. It reveals a fascinating, hidden layer in the long history of the Scottish Gaidhealtach and paints a mini-history of Highland life and thought in the twentieth century.