The Still Life Poet by Liz Lochhead. Musical settings Benjamin Britten set twelve Soutar poems for tenor voice and piano in the 1969 song cycle Who Are These Children? (op. 84). Erik Chisholm set a range of Soutar's verse, including Summer Song, A Dirge for Summer, and the humorous settings The Prodigy, The Braw Plum and The Three Worthies. James MacMillan set several Soutar's Scots-language poems in a style that drew on traditional folk song: "Scots Song" (aka 'The Tryst', 1991), "Ballad" (1994) and "The Children" (1995) were collected as Three Scottish Songs in 1995. The album In a Sma' Room, with settings by Debra Salem, Kevin Mackenzie and Paul Harrison, appeared in 2021. Selected published works Gleanings by an Undergraduate (Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1923) Brief Words. One Hundred Epigrams (Edinburgh/London: The Moray Press, 1935) Seeds in the Wind, Poems in Scots for Children (London: Andrew Dakers, 1943) Diaries of a Dying Man (Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1954) . In fact only a short selection The Collected Poems of William Soutar, ed. Hugh MacDiarmid (London: Andrew Dakers, 1948) Poems of William Soutar: a New Selection, ed. W. R. Aitken (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1988) The Diary of a Dying Man (Edinburgh: Chapman, 1991) At the Year's Fa': Selected Poems in Scots and English (Perth: Perth & Kinross Libraries, 2001) External resources The Scottish Poetry Library site includes a handful of Soutar's poems: Retrieved 16 August 2013. More can be found in Retrieved 16 August 2013 and Retrieved 16 August 2013. A sample of Soutar's cinquains. References External links William Soutar Perth Walks – Perth and Kinross Council 1898 births 1943 deaths 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Lallans poets Scots Makars Writers from Perth, Scotland People educated at Perth Academy 20th-century Scottish poets Scottish male poets Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 20th-century British male writers Scottish Renaissance Royal Navy personnel of World War I Tuberculosis deaths in Scotland