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At Hame wi Charles Murray

Charles Murray (1864-1941), born and brought up in Alford on Donside, was the most well known Scots poet of the first half of the last century. He wrote in a lively and bold form of Scots drawn from the language of his own Donside. His first collection, Hamewith, was so popular that he came to be known as “Hamewith” himself. It wasn’t only in the North East but wherever the Lowland tongue was...

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