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After World World War II, Graham studied at the University of Edinburgh and Moray House College, Edinburgh, during which time he was active in literary circles and co-edited a volume of Scottish student verse.
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Born in Stromfirth in 1924, the family moved to one of the new croft holdings at Veensgarth, Tingwall and he lived there ever since. He had been a part-time crofter most of his life, and active in local politics. He returned to Shetland to take up a teaching post and taught at the Anderson Educational Institute and the Scalloway Junior High School.
He was also headmaster at Urafirth Primary School and latterly the long-term and much loved headmaster of Gott Primary School.
He contributed the biographical sketches to the important textbook The Shetland Book (1967), edited by Andrew T. Cluness. He was editor of Shetland Crofters (1986), co-editor with Brian Smith of MacDiarmid in Shetland, a fine collection of essays on Hugh MacDiarmid published to coincide with the centenary of the birth of this eminent Whalsay resident in 1992, Hjaltland (1993), and A Shetland Anthology (1998).
In 2000, the Shetland Library published his selected poems in Love"s Laebrack Sang, a volume which demonstrates Graham as both a committed political poet, engaged in making response to the public events of the day via satire, and a Shetland poet with a deep love of his community and its history. Lollie Graham"s oldest daughter is the artist Ruth This article incorporates text from the article Laurence_I._Graham on Shetlopedia, which was licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License until September 14, 2007.
