Gaelic poetry became an important influence, particularly, he has said, on the sound of his poems.

For this promethean task the workers were each paid with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry.

He formed an immense collection of Gaelic poetry.

But Gaelic poetry was something I used to dabble in, back at university.

There seems to have been some patronage of Gaelic poetry by the later Pictish kings.

In 2001 he was awarded the Bardic Crown for Gaelic poetry.

In the 18th century two members of the clan earned considerable regard for their Gaelic poetry.

He was one of the first to succeed in rendering the qualities of Gaelic poetry in English.

Members of bardic schools were trained in the complex rules and forms of Gaelic poetry.

Traditional Gaelic poetry utilised an elaborate system of metres, which modern poets have adapted to their own ends.