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Peter Mackay is Scotland’s latest Makar.

The Scots word “makar” refers to an author or poet, as well as Scotland’s national poet. The role of Makar was created by the Scottish government in 2004, with the aim of celebrating Scottish poetry and encouraging people to read and write it. Peter Mackay got the job in December. He says, “It’s an honour, it’s a challenge, but it’s also possibly great fun. It means that I get to talk about poetry every day. ”His mother says Mackay first wrote a poem when he was about four years old. He grew up on an island in western Scotland and later wrote about his life there and his experience of two very different things: wild nature and new technology. Mackay is the first Makar who writes in Gaelic (an ancient…

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