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GUEST,Bothy Bill	Lyr Add: Nicky Tams (33)	RE: Lyr Add: Nicky tams	08 Jun 01
Flora Garry the author of the poem Bennygoak died last year aged 99. She came from the New Deer area of Aberdeenshire originally but laterly stayed down in Crieff. She was given a well deserved honorary degree by Aberdeen(I think)University a few months before she died. She didn't seem to be a prolific writer but made up for it in quality. She had the gift putting the rich Doric of the north east into print. Her use of the words was natural and it comes through in the reading. I don't know of Bennygoak being set to music, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try. I did set one of Flora's other poems "Suffie, The Last of the Buchan Fishwives" to music a few years ago and sing it now and again at the folk club or session. Bothy Bill More information (JRO)

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