In 2021, Jackie Kay was succeeded by Kathleen Jamie as the holder of a national title of this name. For 10 points each:
[10h] A “lament” by William Dunbar lists many fellow examples, including Robert Henryson and Blind Harry, of what traditional bards or poets?
ANSWER: makars (MAH-kur(s)) [accept makaris or "The Lament for the Makaris"]
[10e] The first “makar” lamented by Dunbar is this non-Scottish poet, the extremely influential Middle English author of the Canterbury Tales.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer
[10m] Edinburgh's Makars’ Court is paved with slabs displaying dozens of quotations from Scottish poets, including a couplet beginning “drums in the Walligate, pipes in the air” from this long poem by Hugh MacDiarmid.
ANSWER: “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
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