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2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...
Gies a Scots Poem Day 2026
This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
June 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...