sketches of contemporary subjects and drawings to illustrate his poems. He also sketched and painted watercolours on trips to the Highlands with Denis Peploe and Sorley MacLean. Drawings collected by the architect Ian Begg were published in a book edited by Joy Hendry in 1998. Smith was art critic of The Scotsman from 1960 to 1967. Smith was a member of the Scottish Arts Club and was associated with the editorial board for the Lines Review magazine. He died in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh after a heart attack outside a newsagents on Dundas Street in Edinburgh, and was buried in Dean Cemetery in the northern 20th century section, towards the north-west. His second wife, Hazel Williamson, lies with him. Memorials He is commemorated by a "pavement poem" in the "Makars' Court" a section of James Court off the Lawnmarket on the Royal Mile. Works Skail Wind - poems, Edinburgh, The Chalmers press, 1941 The Wanderer, and other poems, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1943 The Deevil’s Waltz, Glasgow, W. MacLellan, 1946 Selected Poems, Edinburgh, published for The Saltire Society by Oliver and Boyd, 1947 A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature, Serif Books, 1951 So Late into the Night - fifty lyrics, 1944-1948, with a preface by Edith Sitwell, London, P. Russell, 1952 Orpheus and Eurydice - a dramatic poem, Edinburgh, M. Macdonald, 1955 Figs and Thistles, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1959 The Wallace, a triumph in five acts, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1960 The Vision of the Prodigal Son, M. Macdonald, 1960 Carotid Cornucopius, caird o the Cannon Gait and voyeur o the Outluik Touer, Edinburgh, M. Macdonald, 1964 Kynd Kittock’s Land, Edinburgh, M. Macdonald, 1965 Fifteen Poems and a Play, Edinburgh, Southside, 1969 Collected Poems, 1941-1975, with an introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid, London, John Calder, 1975 The Drawings of Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, collected by Ian Begg, edited by Joy Hendry, Edinburgh, Chapman Press, on behalf of The New Auk Society, 1998 A Publisher of the Nineties (Leonard Smithers) in The Holiday Book. 1946 (Ed. by John Singer) Gowdspink in Reekie, Little Brown and Co., 1974 As editor: Robert Fergusson, 1750–1774: essays by various hands (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1952) Gavin Douglas: a selection from his poetry (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1959) The Merry Muses of Caledonia, with James Barke and John DeLancey Ferguson (Edinburgh: M. Macdonald, 1959). Hugh MacDiarmid: a Festschrift, with Kulgin Duval (Edinburgh: K.D. Duval, 1962) A Choice