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
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.