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About William Hershaw
- William Hershaw (born Newport On Tay, Fife, 19 March 1957) is a Scottish poet, playwright, musician and Scots language activist. Hershaw’s first major collection of poetry, The Cowdenbeath Man, Scottish Cultural Press, 1998, was a series of elegies written about the death of the coal mining industry in Central Fife.
- He won the Callum MacDonald Award for Winter Song in 2005, and The McCash Prize for Scots Poetry in 2011. In 2012 he reconvened The Bowhill Players (originally a drama company founded by playwright Joe Corrie during the General Strike of 1926) as a musical ensemble performing at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writing new musical settings for Corrie’s poetry. His most recent work includes a Scots version of The Tempest and Michael (both 2015), a ballad play about the medieval polymath Michael Scot of Balwearie.
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