author
Charles Murray
1864–1941
Best known for bringing the Doric dialect of Scots into poetry with warmth and wit, this Scottish writer spent much of his working life in South Africa while keeping a strong imaginative tie to the landscapes of Aberdeenshire.
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Hamewith
by Charles Murray
About the author
Born in Alford, Aberdeenshire, in 1864, he became one of the best-known poets to write in the Doric dialect of Scots. His work helped show that local speech could carry humor, tenderness, and real literary power.
Although he was raised in north-east Scotland, he spent much of his career in South Africa, where he worked as an engineer and later as a civil servant. That distance from home gave many of his poems an added sense of memory and affection for Scottish rural life.
His collections include A Handfu' o' Heather, Hamewith, A Sough o' War, and In the Country Places. Readers still value his poems for their musical language, vivid sense of place, and deep feeling for everyday people and landscapes.