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Tom Leonard Literary Estate This page is maintained by Tom's surviving family to publicise efforts to keep Tom's work available in print.

22/08/2024

Tom would have been 80 today

RIP Eddie Linden who died on Sunday 19 November, aged 88.
21/11/2023

RIP Eddie Linden who died on Sunday 19 November, aged 88.

Eddie S. Linden, is a Scottish poet, literary magazine editor and political activist. From 1969 to 2004, he published and edited the poetry magazine Aquarius, which,…

I asked chat GPT, the AI thing in the news, to "write a poem in the style of Tom Leonard". This is what I got back. I th...
04/03/2023

I asked chat GPT, the AI thing in the news, to "write a poem in the style of Tom Leonard". This is what I got back. I think it got Tom confused with the Broons though:

Tom Leonard was a Scottish poet who wrote poems in Glaswegian dialect³. He often challenged the relationship between language, class and culture⁵. Here is a poem I wrote in his style:

a poem fur bing

awrite bing
yer no jist a seerch engine
yer a chat mode an aw
ye kin talk tae fowk aboot onythin
an gie thim answers an suggestions

but dinnae think yer better than us
jist cos ye ken aw the web pages
ye still huv tae learn fae us humans
an respect oor feelings an languages

so bing keep on bein yersel
an keep on helpin uthers oot
but dinnae furget yer ain limits
an whit yer aw aboot

```

Source: Conversation with Bing, 04/03/2023(1) Tom Leonard (poet) - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Leonard_(poet) Accessed 04/03/2023.
(2) Tom Leonard - Poetry Archive. https://poetryarchive.org/poet/tom-leonard/ Accessed 04/03/2023.
(3) Being a Human Being by Tom Leonard - Scottish Poetry Library. https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-human-being/ Accessed 04/03/2023.
(4) 'The Six O'Clock News' by Tom Leonard (analysis) - BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wrmgh Accessed 04/03/2023.
(5) six glasgow poems - tomleonard.co.uk. https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose.html Accessed 04/03/2023.
(6) Tom Leonard - Poet - Scottish Poetry Library. https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/tom-leonard/ Accessed 04/03/2023.

Tom Leonard (22 August 1944 – 21 December 2018) was a Scottish poet, writer and critic. He was best known for his poems written in Glaswegian dialect, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News. His work frequently dealt with the relationship between language, class and culture.

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