Description: Mair Leaves Fae Vagaland Published by The Shetland Times, Shetland, 1965. First Edition. Hardback book in original dust jacket. Jacket design by F S Walterson. 58 pages. CONDITION A very good first edition. The dust jacket remains unclipped and is in very good condition with no tears, damage or repairs. Boards and spine very good. Light sellotape marks to endpapers where a plastic sleeve was once used to protect the dust jacket (see last image provided). Small ink name to front endpaper. All contents present and pages are in good clean condition throughout. Overall a very good first edition of this scarce Shetland poetry. Thomas Alexander Robertson, who wrote under the pen name Vagaland, is one of Shetland’s best-loved poets. Last published in book form in 1975, Robertson’s poetry has become increasingly unavailable. In both English and Shetland dialect, his poetry celebrates traditional ways of life that few people today have experienced. Vagaland cared deeply about ‘da aald true wyes’, and his writing is a reminder that there is inevitably something lost when we rush headlong towards the new. T.A. Robertson, 'Vagaland', grew up in Waas and is probably Shetland’s best-known and best-loved poet. His work appeared regularly in the New Shetlander and other publications local and national. Published: Laeves fae Vagaland (1952), Mair laeves fae Vagaland (1965), The Collected poems of Vagaland (1975, reprinted 1980). With his wife Martha, he edited Da Sangs at A’ll Sing ta dee (1973). With John J. Graham, he compiled Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect (1952, reprinted 1991), and co-edited Nordern Lichts (1964) and three volumes of the Shetland Folk Book. Several of Vagaland's poems have been set to music, and appear in the Shetland Folk Society song book Da Sangs at A'll sing ta dee, (pub. 1973 and reprinted in 2013) Recently Water-Lilies was set to music by musician/songwriter Lewie Peterson. In 2023, fifty years after Vagaland's death, Shetland Amenity Trust published a selection of his best work under the title Love in Human Herts. (Platform, Scotland 1, Poetry)
Price: 100 GBP
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh (City of)
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Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: Shetland
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Fiction Subject: Poetry, Theatre & Scripts
Author: Vagaland / T A Robertson
Publisher: The Shetland Times
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1965
