Laurence Graham

Laurence Graham

1924 – 2009

Laurence (Lollie) Graham, former English teacher and primary head teacher, from Tingwall. Scholar, writer and outstanding promoter of the dialect. He was editor of Shetland Crofters (1986), co-editor of MacDiarmid in Shetland (1992), Hjaltland (1993), and A Shetland Anthology (1998); and joint editor of the New Shetlander magazine 1956-1998, together with his brother John J. Graham. Selected poems published in Love’s Laebrack Sang (2000).

Work By Laurence Graham On This Website

• Flans Frae Da Haaf 402

Readings By Laurence Graham On This Website

• Jubilee Ode 402
• Flans Frae Da Haaf 402
• Frisk Waatir Troot 402
• Winter Comes In 402
• Daa looks i da door 402
• Voar wadder 402