The Scottish Renaissance was a 20th-century literary movement that set out to renew Scottish writing by drawing on Scots language, Scottish history, and modernist ideas. In poetry, it is often associated with Hugh MacDiarmid and other writers who wanted to move beyond standard English and create a distinctly Scottish literary voice.
The movement helped bring Scots back into serious literary use and influenced later Scottish poets and prose writers.
Example
A poet writing in the spirit of the Scottish Renaissance might combine modern themes with Scots phrasing, as in:
The city hums in rain and steel,
my ain heart keeps its auld, true tune,
while new-won days go by the wheel
of cloud across the moon.