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Ayont the Thistle
Through essays, poems, reflections & other creative responses, more than 70 writers from around the world explore Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark 1926 poem 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦, examining its language, structure & imagery, its power & its provocations
https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/ayont-the-thistle/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
The stars like thistle’s roses floo’er
The sterile growth o’ Space ootour,
That clad in bitter blasts spreids oot
Frae me, the sustenance o’ its root…
—from September: an illustrated Royal Society of Edinburgh talk placing MacDiarmid’s 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯… in its cultural, political & biographical context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04w6WnXr4PQ
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
Today, October 8, is (naturally) Octopus Day … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦 (1926)
Extract from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #modernist #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #OctopusDay
Hermes was a bad god, a shifty fellow,
a liar, a thief, a teller of the future
(with dice, of course), a musician,
herald and messenger of the gods…
—Norman MacCaig, “Hermes-Mercury”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MACCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #Hermes #Mercury #Wednesday #Roman #Classical
Josephine Tey & the problem of time
20 Oct, Melrose. £6
According to Val McDermid, Josephine Tey is the bridge between Golden Age & contemporary crime fiction. Tey’s books were unconventional in their portrayal of sexuality & in their playful challenges to the norms of the genre, & also took unusual approaches to questions of time & space. Prof Timothy Baker investigates.
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #crimefiction #womenwriters #crimewriting #detectivefiction
The new episode of The Carrying Stream podcast discusses the work of Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973) with David Graham & Kirsty Gunn from North House Press. North House has recently republished Gunn’s debut novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵 (1926), along with two of his later words, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 (1943) & 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵 (1952)
https://pod.link/1865430519/episode/MzZkYmNmY2YtMjk4Mi00NDczLWI1YjMtNjQ3MjZiNTdjMmMw
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #Highlands #NeilGunn #NeilMGunn #podcast
The merry badger keeps his way
Nocturnally,
And I go merry to my play
Even as he…
—Olive Fraser, “The Solitaries”
from THE WRONG MUSIC, @canongate.co.uk 1989
Happy National Badger Day – 6 October – to all who celebrate!
https://www.badgertrust.org.uk/brocktober
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