Tom Buchan (poet)

Tom Buchan (19 June 1931 – 18 October 1995) Scottish poet, novelist and playwright/dramatist.

He returned to teaching at Denny and Irvine Royal Academy before becoming a senior lecturer in English and Drama at Clydebank Technical College.

[3] He worked with Billy Connolly in 1972 on ‘The Great Northern Welly Boot Show’.

He was given a Scottish Arts Council award in 1969 and 1970, and started to publish his own poetry: Dolphins at Cochin (1969), Exorcism (1973), and Poems 1969–72.

His play 'Happy Landings' was performed at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, 'Tell Charlie Thanks for the Truss' (1972)[6] and 'Knox and Mary' (1973).

[4] He was associated with the Findhorn Foundation and lived for many years round the Moray Firth, where he died on 18 October 1995, in a wooded area near Forres.

Lyrics by Billy Connolly, music by Tom McGrath (produced Edinburgh and London, 1972).