#scottish — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scottish, aggregated by home.social.
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Dream of me riding the horse you galloped as a girl –
the one that rode onto the ferryjust as the floor was rising up, in the days when
horses rode the wild sea…—Jackie Kay, “Dream Pier”
published in DARLING (Bloodaxe, 2007) -
Dream of me riding the horse you galloped as a girl –
the one that rode onto the ferryjust as the floor was rising up, in the days when
horses rode the wild sea…—Jackie Kay, “Dream Pier”
published in DARLING (Bloodaxe, 2007) -
Nae wind comes owre sae free
Upon the yirden rose
As hill-blawn winds that gae
Whaur the white bloom grows…—William Soutar, “Summer Song”
published in WILLIAM SOUTAR: Collected Works (Tippermuir, 2024)https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/william-soutar-collected-works-vols-1-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #WilliamSoutar
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Nae wind comes owre sae free
Upon the yirden rose
As hill-blawn winds that gae
Whaur the white bloom grows…—William Soutar, “Summer Song”
published in WILLIAM SOUTAR: Collected Works (Tippermuir, 2024)https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/william-soutar-collected-works-vols-1-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #WilliamSoutar
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Acknowledging Agnes Owens: a celebration of her writing & legacy
24 September, Òran Mór, Glasgow – freeLaunch event for the Byres Road Book Festival, in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive – with Dani Garavelli, Kirstin Innes, William Letford, & Chitra Ramaswamy
#Scottish #literature #AgnesOwens #20thcentury #womenwriters #Glasgow
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Acknowledging Agnes Owens: a celebration of her writing & legacy
24 September, Òran Mór, Glasgow – freeLaunch event for the Byres Road Book Festival, in collaboration with the Agnes Owens Archive – with Dani Garavelli, Kirstin Innes, William Letford, & Chitra Ramaswamy
#Scottish #literature #AgnesOwens #20thcentury #womenwriters #Glasgow
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Our new landscape/seascape print - 'Daisy Rock, Hopeman', watercolour, 59 x 37 cm. Daisy Rock is at the tip of the headland just to the east of Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast of northeast Scotland. Here we are looking back west along the coast past Hopeman Harbour and Burghead. Prints in 4 sizes are available - see www.robwighamwatercolours.com/daisyrock.html for details and pricing! #scotland #scottish #morayfirth #scottishhighlands #watercolour @Curator #painting #prints #artprints
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Thar na sìorraidheachd, thar a sneachda,
chì mi mo dhàin neo-dheachdte,
chì mi lorgan an spòg a’ breacadh
gile shuaimhneach an t-sneachda:
calg air bhoile, teanga fala,
gadhair chaola ’s madaidhean-allaidh…—Somhairle MacGill-Eain, “Coin is Madaidhean-allaidh” (“Dogs and Wolves”)
A poem for International Wolf Day 🐺
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay
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Thar na sìorraidheachd, thar a sneachda,
chì mi mo dhàin neo-dheachdte,
chì mi lorgan an spòg a’ breacadh
gile shuaimhneach an t-sneachda:
calg air bhoile, teanga fala,
gadhair chaola ’s madaidhean-allaidh…—Somhairle MacGill-Eain, “Coin is Madaidhean-allaidh” (“Dogs and Wolves”)
A poem for International Wolf Day 🐺
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay
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“I usually try to write in Gaelic, unless a poem needs a particular turn of phrase in English… I will often work back and forth between both languages, because for me the translation provides a new lens to see the poem with.”
—Beth Frieden speaks to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘺 magazine about her debut poetry pamphlet, 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘩
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/beth-frieden-gaelic-poetry
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poetry #translation
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“I usually try to write in Gaelic, unless a poem needs a particular turn of phrase in English… I will often work back and forth between both languages, because for me the translation provides a new lens to see the poem with.”
—Beth Frieden speaks to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘺 magazine about her debut poetry pamphlet, 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘩
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/beth-frieden-gaelic-poetry
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poetry #translation
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Bring back the wolf!
He’s not long gone, you know.
He went out when sheep came in.
Sheep cleared men and women.
Now let wolves clear sheep…—Edwin Morgan, “Wolf”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet 2020)A poem for International Wolf Day 🐺
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay #Scotland #rewilding #EdwinMorgan
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Bring back the wolf!
He’s not long gone, you know.
He went out when sheep came in.
Sheep cleared men and women.
Now let wolves clear sheep…—Edwin Morgan, “Wolf”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet 2020)A poem for International Wolf Day 🐺
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109967
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay #Scotland #rewilding #EdwinMorgan
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Mary Shelley’s Gothic Dundee
26 August, online
SWI members free; non-members £6.13Mary Shelley was sent to Dundee as a teenager, & it was here, so she claimed in the 1831 edition of FRANKENSTEIN, that her eerie imagination was first stirred. What was so “gothic” about Dundee in the 1810s? And how did it inspire her? Prof Daniel Cook investigates.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swi-expert-talk-mary-shelleys-gothic-dundee-tickets-1996447619573
#Scottish #literature #Scotland #Dundee #romanticism #MaryShelley #gothic #horror #19thcentury #Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley’s Gothic Dundee
26 August, online
SWI members free; non-members £6.13Mary Shelley was sent to Dundee as a teenager, & it was here, so she claimed in the 1831 edition of FRANKENSTEIN, that her eerie imagination was first stirred. What was so “gothic” about Dundee in the 1810s? And how did it inspire her? Prof Daniel Cook investigates.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swi-expert-talk-mary-shelleys-gothic-dundee-tickets-1996447619573
#Scottish #literature #Scotland #Dundee #romanticism #MaryShelley #gothic #horror #19thcentury #Frankenstein
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There is recent talk
of re-introducing wolves
to this demi-nation
of lambs and glaikit rams
and scraggy ewes,
(and – let’s face it –
hardly any shepherds left to care)…—Douglas Lipton, “Wolves”
published in Such Strange Joy (inyx, 2001)Today, 13 August, is International Wolf Day 🐺
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wolves/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #rewilding #Scotland #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay
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There is recent talk
of re-introducing wolves
to this demi-nation
of lambs and glaikit rams
and scraggy ewes,
(and – let’s face it –
hardly any shepherds left to care)…—Douglas Lipton, “Wolves”
published in Such Strange Joy (inyx, 2001)Today, 13 August, is International Wolf Day 🐺
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wolves/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #rewilding #Scotland #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay
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“An epic American family saga, it explores a collective emotional malaise at the heart of a great power in decline. This is a bold and ambitious work… an expansive, compelling and heartfelt novel”
—Jake Arnott reviews 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘜𝘴?, Irvine Welsh’s latest novel
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“An epic American family saga, it explores a collective emotional malaise at the heart of a great power in decline. This is a bold and ambitious work… an expansive, compelling and heartfelt novel”
—Jake Arnott reviews 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘜𝘴?, Irvine Welsh’s latest novel
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That August night
the Perseid shower rained
on moor and lily-loch, on a frightened world –
on us, in a roofless shielingwith all our tat…
—Kathleen Jamie, “One of Us”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Perseids #astronomy #folklore
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That August night
the Perseid shower rained
on moor and lily-loch, on a frightened world –
on us, in a roofless shielingwith all our tat…
—Kathleen Jamie, “One of Us”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Perseids #astronomy #folklore
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Some spikes, but hospitals not overwhelmed by World Cup-related visits https://www.rawchili.com/5070584/ #Boston #fans #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Football #Massachusetts #Scotland #Scottish #Soccer #sports #TartanArmy #WorldCup #WorldCup2026
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Chaque génération a sa bande-son.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACV2n3lJxFs&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmTqIGRqvMBxuY5ORbl15fLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX55HEX0hb0&list=OLAK5uy_kxlATsurW1NaWZBOdZMu2CHnQoVAVbv1M&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIr6WPfgTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88buGM-MnOo&list=PLfimnwaZdumglm-Wm-c-H68i4szgfiz9Q&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjeulQIvOH4&list=PLfimnwaZdumglm-Wm-c-H68i4szgfiz9Q&index=10
#SimpleMinds #CharlieBurchill . #NewWave #80s #Rock #SynthPop #PostPunk #Pop #British #Scottish #Socialmedia #tv #Interview #Music
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Chaque génération a sa bande-son.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACV2n3lJxFs&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmTqIGRqvMBxuY5ORbl15fLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX55HEX0hb0&list=OLAK5uy_kxlATsurW1NaWZBOdZMu2CHnQoVAVbv1M&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIr6WPfgTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88buGM-MnOo&list=PLfimnwaZdumglm-Wm-c-H68i4szgfiz9Q&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjeulQIvOH4&list=PLfimnwaZdumglm-Wm-c-H68i4szgfiz9Q&index=10
#SimpleMinds #CharlieBurchill . #NewWave #80s #Rock #SynthPop #PostPunk #Pop #British #Scottish #Socialmedia #tv #Interview #Music
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There were 3 total solar eclipses visible from the UK in Ramsay’s lifetime, in 1699, 1715, & 1724. I’m assuming that Ramsay’s poem is about the 1715 one – he wrote some other lines on that one for Edinburgh’s Easy Club, a Jacobite literary society
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #eclipse #astronomy #18thcentury
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There were 3 total solar eclipses visible from the UK in Ramsay’s lifetime, in 1699, 1715, & 1724. I’m assuming that Ramsay’s poem is about the 1715 one – he wrote some other lines on that one for Edinburgh’s Easy Club, a Jacobite literary society
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #eclipse #astronomy #18thcentury
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Upon his guilded chariot led by hours,
With radiant glories darting throw the air,
The sun, high sprung in his diurnal course,
Shed down a day serenely sweet and fair…—Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), “The Eclipse”
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #eclipse #astronomy #18thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Upon his guilded chariot led by hours,
With radiant glories darting throw the air,
The sun, high sprung in his diurnal course,
Shed down a day serenely sweet and fair…—Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), “The Eclipse”
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #eclipse #astronomy #18thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Dick Gaughan sings Robert Burns’s “Song, Composed in August” (“Now Westlin Winds”), live at Harvard, 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vZ7oYCx6tBw
#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment
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Dick Gaughan sings Robert Burns’s “Song, Composed in August” (“Now Westlin Winds”), live at Harvard, 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vZ7oYCx6tBw
#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment
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Now westlin winds, and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
And the moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather…—Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in August”
First published in POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT (Kilmarnock, 1786)Pages digitised by the National Library of Scotland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment
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Now westlin winds, and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
And the moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather…—Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in August”
First published in POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT (Kilmarnock, 1786)Pages digitised by the National Library of Scotland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment
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“What an incredible coincidence it is that our moon fits exactly over our sun…”
—In his 2009 parallel-universes novel TRANSITION, Iain (M) Banks suggested that one of our planet’s near-miraculous total eclipses would be a perfect place to look for alien tourists
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/iain-banks/transition/9780349139272/
#Scottish #literature #IainMBanks #IainBanks #sciencefiction #scifi #eclipse #eclipse2026 #aliens
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“What an incredible coincidence it is that our moon fits exactly over our sun…”
—In his 2009 parallel-universes novel TRANSITION, Iain (M) Banks suggested that one of our planet’s near-miraculous total eclipses would be a perfect place to look for alien tourists
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/iain-banks/transition/9780349139272/
#Scottish #literature #IainMBanks #IainBanks #sciencefiction #scifi #eclipse #eclipse2026 #aliens
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🏴 The #Scottish Parliament has recognised David 'Davie' Adam, Operations Manager at First Bus Aberdeen, as he prepares to retire after a 47-year career in public transport. Local MSP Jackie Dunbar presented Adam with a framed parliamentary motion honoring his service to regional #transport and his role in major historical events.
Beginning as an office junior at #Aberdeen Corporation Transport in 1979, Adam rose through the ranks as a conductor, driver, inspector, and controller before taking charge of First Bus operations in Aberdeen in 2011. Over his career, his logistical planning proved vital during key events, including coordinating transport for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, handling passenger operations for Operation Unicorn following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and managing transport for the 2025 Tall Ships festival and Offshore #Europe conferences.
https://news.firstbus.co.uk/news/first-bus-managers-role-in-scotland-public-transport-praised-by-parliament -
🏴 The #Scottish Parliament has recognised David 'Davie' Adam, Operations Manager at First Bus Aberdeen, as he prepares to retire after a 47-year career in public transport. Local MSP Jackie Dunbar presented Adam with a framed parliamentary motion honoring his service to regional #transport and his role in major historical events.
Beginning as an office junior at #Aberdeen Corporation Transport in 1979, Adam rose through the ranks as a conductor, driver, inspector, and controller before taking charge of First Bus operations in Aberdeen in 2011. Over his career, his logistical planning proved vital during key events, including coordinating transport for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, handling passenger operations for Operation Unicorn following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and managing transport for the 2025 Tall Ships festival and Offshore #Europe conferences.
https://news.firstbus.co.uk/news/first-bus-managers-role-in-scotland-public-transport-praised-by-parliament -
Scotland 1926
25 Aug, Edinburgh Book FestivalKirsty Gunn, Alan Riach, and James Robertson revisit the Scottish Renaissance through landmark works including Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, the early work of Neil M Gunn, & other under-sung voices including Willa Muir & Helen Cruickshank. Deep dive into a remarkable literary moment and the writers who helped reshape Scotland’s imaginative life.
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/kirsty-gunn-alan-riach-and-james-robertson-scotland-1926
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Scotland 1926
25 Aug, Edinburgh Book FestivalKirsty Gunn, Alan Riach, and James Robertson revisit the Scottish Renaissance through landmark works including Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, the early work of Neil M Gunn, & other under-sung voices including Willa Muir & Helen Cruickshank. Deep dive into a remarkable literary moment and the writers who helped reshape Scotland’s imaginative life.
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/kirsty-gunn-alan-riach-and-james-robertson-scotland-1926
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid
10/10
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scotland #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid
10/10
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scotland #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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Hugh MacDiarmid at 100
A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name
9/10
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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Hugh MacDiarmid at 100
A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name
9/10
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Margaret Tait’s affectionate 1964 biography of Hugh MacDiarmid
8/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f3BbuqaiY
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #biography #MargaretTait
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Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Margaret Tait’s affectionate 1964 biography of Hugh MacDiarmid
8/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f3BbuqaiY
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #biography #MargaretTait
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Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ …—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Scotland Small?”
published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)7/10
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ …—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Scotland Small?”
published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)7/10
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
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“Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
—Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)6/10
https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/extremism-poiesis
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion
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“Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
—Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)6/10
https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/extremism-poiesis
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion
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A Man in Constant Revolt: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry of World War Two
—Richie McCaffery, International Review of Scottish Studies 43 (2018)
5/10
https://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/index.php/irss/article/view/4541
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #warpoetry #WW2
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A Man in Constant Revolt: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry of World War Two
—Richie McCaffery, International Review of Scottish Studies 43 (2018)
5/10
https://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/index.php/irss/article/view/4541
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #warpoetry #WW2
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“It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry… He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
—1931 Security Service reportRead Prof Scott Lyall’s “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”
4/10
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hugh-macdiarmid-and-the-british-state/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #surveillance
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His corpse owre a’ the city lies
In ilka square and ilka street
His spilt bluid floods the vera skies
And nae hoose but is darkened wi’t…—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Dead Liebknecht”
published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)3/10
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
