#hughmacdiarmid — Public Fediverse posts

Imagining Scotland: Walter Scott vs Hugh MacDiarmid

Walter Scott & Hugh MacDiarmid could scarcely have had more opposing visions of Scotland’s past, present & future – or could they? James Robertson & Alex Linklater discuss these two giants of our culture & their respective projects for inventing or reinventing the nation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMXtSraI7rY

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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/

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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

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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

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