Hamish Henderson was a Scottish poet, also serving as a songwriter, communist, soldier, and intellectual. He was an accomplished collector of folk songs and a catalyst for the folk revival in Scotland. His work is characterized by a strong social conscience and a deep engagement with Scottish culture and history. Henderson's influence on the Scottish literary and musical landscape remains evident today.
Henderson wrote, sang, and agitated for a Scottish socialist republic, for the dissolution of the British empire and its legacies, and for a conception of human value incommensurable with exploitation under late capitalism.