#alastairreid — Public Fediverse posts

The documentary artist & illustrator Jenny Soep attended the 2007 festival & captured “The Burning of Scotland” as it happened – visit her website to see the sketch

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https://www.jennysoep.com/events/varied/15.html#various

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Alastair Reid performed “Scotland” for the last time at the StAnza Poetry Festival in St Andrews in 2007, in an event now known as “The Burning of Scotland”
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210515104933/past.stanzapoetry.org/stanza07_archive/burnscot.htm

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The whole documentary is available to watch online from the Leman Productions archive: Alastair Reid reflects on 30 years of writing for the NEW YORKER magazine, & his remarkable literary friendships with Robert Graves, Jorge Luis Borges & Pablo Neruda

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-NTj70oBA

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In this extract from A Restless Content (1996), made to celebrate his 70th birthday, Alastair Reid – reclining on a hammock in his Greenwich Village apartment – delivers his poem “Scotland”:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAgGk88t0NM

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What with the weather being so beautiful in Scotland at the moment we are legally & morally obliged to post

It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet,
when larks rose on long thin strings of singing
and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels…

—Alastair Reid (1926–2014), “Scotland”
published in WEATHERING: Poems & Translations (EP Dutton, 1978)
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