His earliest surviving writings date from World War II, (e.g., Silversmiths in the Gambia, Mocking Birds in Berlin, Good Angel[1]), during which time he was an airframe fitter in the Royal Air Force.
While posted to South Africa in 1942, he met Margaret Rose MacPhail (Peggy), who would, six years later, make the trip to Scotland to become his wife.
After the war, Law worked as a miner for a number of years, and later became a technical writer for Rolls-Royce plc at their East Kilbride site.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Law published over a hundred poems in magazines and journals,[1] and self-published his poetry in a series of pamphlets: Abbey Craig tae Stirling Castle (1974), Aftentymes a Tinkler (1975), Whyles a Targe (1975), A Pryle o Aces (1977), and The N.C.O.’s (1980).
After his retirement in the early 1980s, Law devoted himself full-time to poetry, tackling longer poetical works such as Moses at Mount Sinai,[4] The Magical Well, Freedom at Large and Away, Yeegie Landscapes.