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Scottish Contemporary Poets
The Cowdenbeath Man
A series of elegies about the death of the coal mining industry in Central Fife.
64 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1990
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About the author
William Hershaw
47 booksWilliam Hershaw is a Scottish poet, playwright, musician and Scots language activist.
He graduated with an MA in English from the University of Edinburgh and taught English at Viewforth High in Kirkcaldy.
Hershaw’s first major collection of poetry, The Cowdenbeath Man, Scottish Cultural Press, 1998, was a series of elegies written about the death of the coal mining industry in Central Fife. He won the Callum MacDonald Award for Winter Song in 2005, and The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry in 2011.
In 2012 he reconvened The Bowhill Players (originally a drama company founded by playwright Joe Corrie during the General Strike of 1926) as a musical ensemble performing at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writing new musical settings for Corrie’s poetry.
His most recent work includes a Scots version of The Tempest and Michael (both 2015), a ballad play about the medieval polymath Michael Scot of Balwearie.
Hershaw lives in Lochgelly.
He graduated with an MA in English from the University of Edinburgh and taught English at Viewforth High in Kirkcaldy.
Hershaw’s first major collection of poetry, The Cowdenbeath Man, Scottish Cultural Press, 1998, was a series of elegies written about the death of the coal mining industry in Central Fife. He won the Callum MacDonald Award for Winter Song in 2005, and The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry in 2011.
In 2012 he reconvened The Bowhill Players (originally a drama company founded by playwright Joe Corrie during the General Strike of 1926) as a musical ensemble performing at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writing new musical settings for Corrie’s poetry.
His most recent work includes a Scots version of The Tempest and Michael (both 2015), a ballad play about the medieval polymath Michael Scot of Balwearie.
Hershaw lives in Lochgelly.
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