Born at
Edinburgh to Maggie Gold and her husband, plumber William Annand, He was educated at
Broughton Secondary School, and graduated from the
University of Edinburgh in 1930. He later taught at schools in Edinburgh and
Whithorn. He also translated poetry and fiction from German and medieval Latin into
Scots. His adult poems include translations of
Bavarian folksongs and of
Carmina Burana. In 1925, Annand wrote a review of
Hugh MacDiarmid's seminal publication
Sangshaw and he worked with MacDiarmid on the establishment of Scottish PEN in 1927. During
World War II, Annand served in the
Royal Navy, taking part in the
Murmansk convoys. and the founding editor of
Lallans, a magazine for writing in
Scots published by the
Scots Language Society, from 1973 to 1983. His poem 'Arctic Convoy' won the 1956 prize for Best Original Poem in the Scottish Dialect of the Burns Federation. He bequeathed the rights to his work, and royalties from it, to
Dictionaries of the Scots Language SCIO. He died in Edinburgh in 1993. ==Collections of children's poetry==