In a modest house on Wilson Street in Perth, Scotland, a small attic room served as both prison and sanctuary for one of Scotland's most remarkable twentieth-century poets. From this confined space, William Soutar would pen some of the most enduring children's verse in Scots literature while simultaneously crafting deeply personal meditations on mortality, isolation, and the human condition. His story is one of extra…
“Such a distinctive French book makes a Scot feel that he is rather a dog-collared dog.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Nature Poets, Scottish Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Peace
Lew R. Sarett, the poet of the wilderness, was born Lewis Zaratzsky—later Saretsky—on May 16, 1888, in the crowded immigrant neighborhoods of Chicago, Illinois. His parents, Rudolph Zaratzsky, a clothing cutter from Poland, and Jeanette Bloch from Lithuania, had arrived in America seeking opportunity amid the waves of Eastern European migration. As their only child, young Lew grew up in a household shaped by both the…
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Anger, Irony, Joy
