Tom Leonard obituary

In 1985 the poet Tom Leonard, who has died aged 74, won the Saltire prize for Scottish Book of the Year with Intimate Voices, a selection of poems and other works, either in Glasgow dialect or in English, from the previous two decades.

Shortly afterwards it was banned from schools and libraries in the central region of Scotland, the chair of the education committee commenting: “There are some harmful words in it, and I’m not talking about bloody. Sometimes the naked truth has to be clothed.”