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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureThe Bonnie Broukit Bairn Hugh MacDiarmidMars is braw in crammasy, Venus in a green silk goun, The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers, Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers, Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’, Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn! – But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun The haill clanjamfrie!<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureThe deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you. You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a>, 9 September<a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature“SANGSCHAW… gave other writers permission to push the boundaries of Scots as a language of literature, capable of expressing deep thought and not just for light comedy or mawkish whimsy”Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book<a href="https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotslanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a>

Scottish LassHugh MacDiarmid 'Rebel Poet', BBC documentary, originally broadcast 1972.“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.” - <a href="https://youtu.be/0ixcMSAC1XY?si=f7R0UdWF6evdlWzl" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/0ixcMSAC1XY?si=f7R0UdWF6evdlWzl</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Documentary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scots</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureToday, October 8, is (naturally) <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OctopusDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OctopusDay</a> … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”Extract 👇 from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry, ed. Alan Riach & Michael Grieve (Carcanet, 2004) <a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#20thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#modernism</a>

Undiscovered Scotland132 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">https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Memorial</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Langholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Langholm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UndiscoveredScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UndiscoveredScotland</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureJohn 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">#Modernist</a> writers such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf & Hugh MacDiarmid<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/19thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#19thCentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Victorian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Victorian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WBYeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WBYeats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WallaceStevens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WallaceStevens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TSEliot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TSEliot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/VirginiaWoolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VirginiaWoolf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a> 2/2<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson</a>

Seonaidh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Have missed this gem until recently. Via Landmarks by <a href="https://zirk.us/@RobGMacfarlane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@RobGMacfarlane</a>Brilliant. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@scotlit</a> <a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-small" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-small</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a>

Undiscovered Scotland131 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">https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Memorial</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Langholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Langholm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UndiscoveredScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UndiscoveredScotland</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature“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">#Ireland</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotland</a>.”<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Irish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SeamusHeaney</a> <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">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/06/14/late-celticism-in-irish-and-scottish-literature-binding-ties/</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureAntagonist: the life behind Hugh MacDiarmid 31 Jan, University of Glasgow – freeAlexander 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?<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/litstudies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@litstudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Modernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Modernism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biography</a> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alexander-linklater-antagonist-the-life-behind-hugh-macdiarmid-tickets-513918342597" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alexander-linklater-antagonist-the-life-behind-hugh-macdiarmid-tickets-513918342597</a>

Dominic RivronFrom On a Raised Beach by Hugh MacDiarmid:The inward gates of a bird are always open. It does not know how to shut them. That is the secret of its song, But whether any man’s are ajar is doubtful.<a href="https://ohai.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hughmacdiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hughmacdiarmid</a>

Michael H WhitworthA belated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</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">#modernism</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modernistpoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#modernistpoetry</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VirginiaWoolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VirginiaWoolf</a> (I’ve edited <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NightAndDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NightAndDay</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Orlando" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Orlando</a>), the relations of literature and science (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LitSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LitSci</a>), history of science, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookHistory</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopularScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PopularScience</a>; other individual writers such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TSEliot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TSEliot</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MinaLoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MinaLoy</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HerbertRead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HerbertRead</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HughMacDiarmid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HughMacDiarmid</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JWNSullivan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JWNSullivan</a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelRoberts</a>.

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