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But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth…

—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
published in The Complete Poems (1978)

Today, 18 April, is World Heritage Day. Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town & Georgian New Town form one of Scotland’s UNESCO World Heritage sites

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support/listing-scheduling-and-designations/world-heritage-sites/old-and-new-towns-of-edinburgh/

#Scottish #Literature #WorldHeritageDay #architecture #builtenvironment #poem #poetry #Edinburgh #MacDiarmid

#December 18, 1967
#OTD Muriel Stuart, #English #Poet and #Writer, died.

#MacDiarmid thought she was the best #Scottish #Renaissance #Poet (#Female).

In #Midlife, Muriel gave up #Poetry for #Garden #Writing.

In her #Book, #Fool's Garden (1936), she wrote,

"Even the #Tiniest garden... is #Ennobled by #Planting #Trees.

Otherwise, the #Walls #Lean in, & there is nothing to #Lift your garden above the #Eye... to #Hide the peering #Windows, #Lavatory & #Clothesline of the #House next door."