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Marion Angus's father was a minister of the United Presbiterian Kirk in Arbroath. After his death she moved to Aberdeen, and most of her adult life was spent there, though she also lived in Helensburgh and Edinburgh. She was an early member of Scottish PEN. Marion Angus contributed poetry and stories to journals when quite young, but only began writing seriously later in life. Her poetry is mainly (though not exclusively) written in the Angus dialect, depicting the "cauld east countra" she knew. Her poems are generally short, simple and spare in form, and are influenced by traditional ballad. Her best-known poem is "Alas, Poor Queen", a lament for Mary Queen of Scots.
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The Lilt and Other Poems (1922); The Tinker's Road (1924); Sun and Candlelight (1927); The Singin' Lass (1929); The Turn of The Day (1931); Lost Country (1937); Selected Poems, ed. M. Lindsay (1950).
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