Law, T. S.

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Name (Latin)
Law, T. S.
Other forms of name
Law, Thomas Sturdy
Date of birth
1916-10-31
Date of death
1997-05-12
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Poetry
Prose literature
Occupation
Poets
Associated Language
sco
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 77557410
Wikidata: Q7668670
Library of congress: n 50034707
Sources of Information
  • Scottish Poetry Library WWW site, 15 May 2019:poets (T.S. Law, 1916-1997; was a prolific poet who wrote mainly in Scots and produced work in a great variety of form and length; Thomas Sturdy Law was born in Newarthill, Lanarkshire, on the 31st of October 1916; poetry collections, Away, Yeegie Landscapes and An In-Memoriam; his wartime experiences are also recounted in the prose work Refuel and Rearm Unit; lived in Newarthill for a time before settling in Dunfermline after getting married where Law had secured work as a miner in the Fife coalfields; he moved to Rolls Royce in East Kilbride, where he stayed until the end of his career; first collection of poetry, Whit Tyme in the Day, was published in 1948; He also co-edited Homage to John MacLean (1973) and The Socialist Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (1978); retired to the town of Auchterarder; died on the 12th of May 1997)
  • Homage to John MacLean, 1973.

Wikipedia description:

Thomas Sturdy Law (31 October 1916 – 12 May 1997) was a Scottish poet whose work was published throughout the latter half of the 20th century. His poetry is mainly in the Scots language, although he also wrote some poetry and prose in English.

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