Walter Elliot

Born in Selkirk in 1934, Walter Elliot spent his youthful life in the Ettrick Valley. After his national service in Northern Ireland, he has spent more than three decades as a wood / fencing contractor, and four years as a Museum Assistant, all in the Border. He worked as a writer, broadcaster and historian. He collected indigenous and oral poetry for the region in The New Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 1805-2005 (Deerpark, 2006). He writes poems for Scots, and has published several pamphlets, including A Song for Yarrow (1991).