Rannan Chloinne
Posted on 3 March 2026 in Latest News
When the Gaelic Books Council and the Scottish Poetry Library were looking for a project on which to collaborate in 2025-26, the obvious choice was to prioritise new poems for children. This is a genre with considerable scope for development, and we hope that the poems that have been written for Rannan Chloinne will delight their young readers and encourage the poets themselves, and that we’ll see more in the years to come as a legacy of this initiative. In these verses you will find a range of subjects and sentiments – some frivolous, some more serious, some that will lift your spirits and others that will give you pause, and all of them in eloquent Gaelic. We are indebted to Peter Mackay, Scotland’s Makar, for his advice and work as editor.
Read the poems that resulted from the project here:
An Fhallaid, by Meg Bateman
An Taghan ‘s an Geamair, by Aonghas MacLeòid
Aoibheag ò an iomain, by Eòghann Stiùbhart
Bualadh Boise, by Niall O’Gallagher
Cha Toigh Leamsa Sgrìobhadh, by Martin MacIntyre
Lilidh, by Anna Frater
Meaban, by Iain MacRae
Na Raiders, by Robbie Anndra MacLeòid
Nuair a thàinig a’ Phiseag, by Joan Nicdhòmhnaill
Preasa Mo Sheanar, by Morag Ann MacNeil
Rannan-Chloinne, by Rody Gorman
Rudan fiadhaich, by Beth Frieden
Sleepover na h-Alba, by Mark Spencer Turner
Visit the Scottish Poetry Library’s website for more information about Rannan Chloinne.
