Square Baw

Square Baw is a collection of football poems that not only covers personal experience, but takes a deep dive into the history of the Scottish game itself, and thereby goes to the heart of Scottish masculinity.''Hamish's love of the beautiful game shines like a floodlight in this beezer of a collection. He effortlessly combines the punchy, gallus fever of the terraces with this tender, lyrical, homage to football's past. A master of language, a poet secure in his craft, the Bankies Bard has done it again!'' Julie McNeil, Poet, author of We Are Scottish Football and co-editor of A Most Unsuitable Game

About the author

Hamish MacDonald was the first skriver at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh and his poems reflect his own lifelong love of birds.

Product details

• Authors: Hamish MacDonald
• Publisher: BookSource
• Languages: English, Scots
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 08.10.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781917881012
• ISBN: 978-1-917881-01-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 226 g
• Illustrations: Photographs, farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography & True Stories, Society & social sciences, POETRY / General, First World War, Football, Scotland, Memoirs, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Poetry by individual poets, Football (Soccer, Association football), Football variants and related games, Language: history and general works, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Poetry / poems by individual poets