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title: Eiks an Ens 30
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  Included in this issue of Eiks an Ens are details of our next
  Conference in Perth and of our anthologies, which are having
  very positive reviews and are well worth the money.
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## Annual Conference

The Annual Conference of the Scots Language Society will be held on Saturday the
3<sup>rd</sup> in the Sandeman Room, AK Bell Library, York Place, Perth, PH2 
8EP. This year’s theme will be _The Art of Flyting in Scottish Literature_.

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    { time: '10.00 am', description: 'Registration and coffee.' },
    { time: '10.30 am', description: 'Derrick McClure: Whit is Flyting?' },
    { time: '11.15 am', description: 'George T Watt: The Flyting Hugh M' },
    { time: '12 noon', description: 'Sangschaw 2023: prizes and readings.' },
    { time: '12.45 pm', description: 'Lunch break.' },
    { time: '2.00 pm', description: 'AGM of the Scots Language Society.' },
    { time: '2.30 pm', description: 'Fred Freeman: Hamish Henderson’s Flyting o Life and Daith.' },
    { time: '3.15 pm', description: 'Len Pennie: Contemporary Scots Literature.' },
    { time: '4.00 pm', description: 'General discussion.' },
    { time: '4.30 pm', description: 'Close of Conference.' },
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The cost of attending the Collogue is £20. Contact George Watt on
<Link href="mailto:lallans@hotmail.co.uk">lallans@hotmail.co.uk</Link>
or Elaine Morton on
<Link href="mailto:failte@go-plus.net">failte@go-plus.net</Link>.

## Sangschaw 2023 Winners

### The Robert McLellan Tassie fur Scots Prose

#### Winner

_Aince_ by Jamie Purves

#### Rinner-up

_Haymarket Wumman_ by Jerry Randalls

#### Ruisit

_Bother wi a Babby Bird_ by Anne Jones
_Benny_ by Andrew G Matthews
_Kafka_ by Pete Fortune

### The John MacPhail Law Tassie for Owersettin

#### Winner

_Roond Stane_ by Finola Scott

#### Jynt Rinner-up

_The Black Loch_ by Robert Duncan
_Aliens_ by James Sinclair

#### Ruisit

_Chale Shaw_ by Joe Carstairs
_John MacLean’s Coat_ by Robert Duncan
_Jock Tamson’s Luve-Bairns_ by David Bleiman
_Bauk in the USSR_ by Alastair McLeish
_Eldritch, Cretaceous Man Jinkin_ by Alan Millar
_The Ootgaun_ by Hamish Scott
_Mindin Joe_ by Jock Stein
_The Ceremonie o Cairnholy_ by Donald Adamson
_A New Sang_ by David Bleiman
_Ahint the Haund_ by Kevin Connelly
_The Marriage Lair_ by Irene Howat
_Leid in ma Heid_ by Alan Millar

## Wittins: Sangschaw, Lallans 102-103

Our own Lord Braxfield, Judge of the Sangschaw, will deliver his summary of
this year’s happenings in Lallans 102. The word on the street is that the
cranky old grump was pretty impressed by what was put before him. So keep at
it, Scots writers - it vexes him no end to see the Scots language being put to
such good effect! It’s not too early to start working on your masterpiece for
next year. The winner of the poetry class is printed below, but the editor will
endeavour to include as many entries as possible in the forthcoming Lallans
102/103. The summer number in particular will have an extraordinary and broad
showing of further Scots writing, including an interview with Scots Radio
broadcaster Frieda Morrison; Fred Freeman’s epic on Burns, Hamish Henderson
and song; the final instalment of Sam Burns’ Deacon Broadie play and an
abundance of thought-provoking poetry, stories, reviews and news concerning
all the other ventures in the ever-expanding world of the Scots language.

## _The Galloway Hoard, Kirkcudbright Museum_ by Finola Scott

_Winner of the Hugh MacDiarmid Cup for Poetry, Sangschaw 2023_

Aw muscle and glaur, he’s preenin<br />
An muckle boastin. Yi’d think<br />
He wis the first. In he struts<br />
Aw Cock o the walk,<br />
King o Faithers, comb throbbin.<br />

Aye unnerfit, he wants tae feel<br />
Ma flutters, tae cup the load I coorie.<br />
He brags aboot the hero it’ll be.<br />
Weel mibbe, but fir noo it’s jist<br />
A wee will o the wisp, ma treisur.<br />

I shouldnae compleen, sure he broucht<br />
thon gift - a wee baa. Its hollow jinglet<br />
when I joogelt it. I thocht it a toy<br />
fir the bairn. But naw, seems it’s tae ease<br />
an bless the birthin. Whit a man.<br />

## Anthologies

The Scots Language Society is a registered charity run by volunteers. By being
a member of the Society, you are already giving the Scots language a boost.
You can help us further by purchasing one or both of our first-rate
50th-anniversary anthologies: contact our membership Secretary, George T Watt
at <Link href="mailto:lallans@hotmail.co.uk">lallans@hotmail.co.uk</Link>
or Willie Hershaw at
<Link href="mailto:w.hershaw678@btinternet.com">w.hershaw678@btinternet.com</Link>.
Every book costs £12.99 including postage. Overseas orders incur an additional
£5 for postage. Included is a selection of the best Scots poetry and prose
from across 50 years and hundred issues of Lallans.