Other works broadcast by the BBC as dramas or poetic dialogues include The Death of Tristram and Iseult (1947), The Vision of the Prodigal Son (1959), The Stick Up or Full Circle (1961), The Twa Brigs (1964), A Night at Ambrose's (1972), Macallister (1973), and Gowdspink in Reekie (1976). Kynd Kittock's Land (1964) was a poem commissioned by the BBC for television broadcast. His play The Wallace formed part of the 1960 Edinburgh Festival. His A Short Introduction to Scottish Literature, based on four broadcast talks, was published in 1951. Under the Eildon Tree (1948), a long poem in 24 parts, is considered by many his finest work The Grace of God and the Meth-Drinker is a much-anthologised poem. Carotid Cornucopius (1947) was a comic novel about Edinburgh. His first poetry collection, Skail Wind, was published in 1941. In a letter dated 1 November 1941 he informed MacDiarmid that he 'gave up writing English for Scots' after reading A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926). In the late 1930s, Smith was introduced to the works of Hugh MacDiarmid by Hector MacIver, a literary critic who taught English at Edinburgh's Royal High School. He also claimed to have studied art in Italy, wine in France and mountains in Bavaria. He went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine, but abandoned that, and started to study history at Oriel College, Oxford whence he was expelled, but managed to complete a degree. He moved to Edinburgh with his family in 1928. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Catherine Goodsir Gelenick and Sydney Smith, a pioneer in forensic science who later became a Regius Professor in forensic medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He wrote poetry in literary Scots often referred to as Lallans (Lowlands dialect), and was a major figure of the Scottish Renaissance. Sydney Goodsir Smith (26 October 1915 – 15 January 1975) was a New Zealand-born Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist.
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