Scottish Lass<p>Hugh MacDiarmid 'Rebel Poet', BBC documentary, originally broadcast 1972.</p><p>“Poets are a very small minority of people who for some obscure reason, have failed to grow up. In other words, they're natural rebels.” - </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/0ixcMSAC1XY?si=f7R0UdWF6evdlWzl" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/0ixcMSAC1XY?si=f7R0Ud</span><span class="invisible">WF6evdlWzl</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Documentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scots</span></a></p>
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Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Today, October 8, is (naturally) <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OctopusDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OctopusDay</span></a> … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”</p><p>Extract 👇 from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry, ed. Alan Riach & Michael Grieve (Carcanet, 2004) </p><p><a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer</span><span class="invisible">?product=9781857547566</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modernism</span></a></p>
Undiscovered Scotland<p>132 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: <a href="https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usb</span><span class="invisible">iography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memorial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Langholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Langholm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UndiscoveredScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UndiscoveredScotland</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>John Davidson grew up in Greenock, a son of the manse – although he soon rebelled against his father’s religious beliefs. A prolific writer, he influenced many <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Modernist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Modernist</span></a> writers such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf & Hugh MacDiarmid</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/19thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>19thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Victorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Victorian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Modernism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WBYeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WBYeats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WallaceStevens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WallaceStevens</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TSEliot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TSEliot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/VirginiaWoolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VirginiaWoolf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a> </p><p>2/2</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/booksblo</span><span class="invisible">g/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson</span></a></p>
Seonaidh 🏴<p>Have missed this gem until recently. Via Landmarks by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@RobGMacfarlane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RobGMacfarlane</span></a></span></p><p>Brilliant. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>scotlit</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-small" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/p</span><span class="invisible">oem/scotland-small</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a></p>
Undiscovered Scotland<p>131 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: <a href="https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usb</span><span class="invisible">iography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memorial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Langholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Langholm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UndiscoveredScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UndiscoveredScotland</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland and Scotland might be linked through similar philosophical traditions, MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural and political developments as a source of inspiration for Scotland, and Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities between the north and south of Ireland, as well as between <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a>.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Irish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesJoyce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/06/14/late-celticism-in-irish-and-scottish-literature-binding-ties/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishtimes.com/culture/books/2</span><span class="invisible">023/06/14/late-celticism-in-irish-and-scottish-literature-binding-ties/</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Antagonist: the life behind Hugh MacDiarmid<br>31 Jan, University of Glasgow – free</p><p>Alexander Linklater asks, what does the actual life of Christopher Murray Grieve reveal about the persona he created, the poetry he wrote, & the Scottish idea he revolutionised?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/litstudies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>litstudies</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Modernism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biography</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alexander-linklater-antagonist-the-life-behind-hugh-macdiarmid-tickets-513918342597" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eventbrite.co.uk/e/alexander-l</span><span class="invisible">inklater-antagonist-the-life-behind-hugh-macdiarmid-tickets-513918342597</span></a></p>
Dominic Rivron<p>From On a Raised Beach<br>by Hugh MacDiarmid:</p><p>The inward gates of a bird are always open.<br>It does not know how to shut them.<br>That is the secret of its song,<br>But whether any man’s are ajar is doubtful.</p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hughmacdiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hughmacdiarmid</span></a></p>
Michael H Whitworth<p>A belated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> : I imagine I’ll mostly be using this account for professional things. I teach literature in English 1830-present at Oxford University. Research interests include <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modernism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modernistpoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modernistpoetry</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VirginiaWoolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VirginiaWoolf</span></a> (I’ve edited <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NightAndDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NightAndDay</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Orlando" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orlando</span></a>), the relations of literature and science (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LitSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LitSci</span></a>), history of science, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookHistory</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopularScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopularScience</span></a>; other individual writers such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TSEliot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TSEliot</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MinaLoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MinaLoy</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HerbertRead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HerbertRead</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughMacDiarmid</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JWNSullivan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JWNSullivan</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelRoberts</span></a>.</p>
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