The Poems: The Cyard's Kist

The Cyard’s Kist is the earliest volume of poems in the Blackhall collection (Rainbow Publishing, 1984). Many poems featured in the North East Muse section of the P & J, edited by Cuthbert Graham.

Les Wheeler welcomed its arrival on the literary scene:
‘Here was a poet with a large and impressive canon of verse, in Scots and English, the majority of which had never been published…a new, fresh and vigorous voice has surfaced in Scottish poetry…’