Tongue Stramash: Poems in Scots

By David Bleiman

David Bleiman is bringing out his first collection, Tongue Stramash, a book of poems in Scots.  He lives in Edinburgh, writing poetry in English, Scots and a little Spanish and Yiddish. He particularly enjoys writing multilingual poetry, including a part-excavated, largely reimagined dialect of Scots-Yiddish.

Reviews of Tongue Stramash: Poems in Scots

'David Bleiman, stirring in all the rich cultural and linguistic references from a polyglot background, has produced a Scotch broth of a book here, reeking, rich and satisfying. Erudite, tender, on occasions whimsical, Bleiman deserves to be accounted among Scotland’s most versatile and skilful contemporary poets.'
– Hugh McMillan, poet