But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream.
Hugh MacDiarmid

#Scotland2026 #Edinburgh #HughMacDiarmid #Photography #BNW #blackandwhitephotography #Architecture

A quote from a #poem to accompany this post from my main account:

Oh to be at Crowdieknowe
When the last trumpet blaws
An see the deid come loupin owre
The auld grey wa’s

Muckle men wi tousled beards
I grat at as a bairn
‘ll scramble frae the croodit clay
Wi feck o swearin

#HughMacDiarmid

There are a couple of my poems in the section linked to below, but don’t let that put you off, as they sit alongside some proper writers, including #SeanOBrien and #PippaLittle:

robertgravesreview.org/essay/488

#HughMacDiarmid #RobertGravesReview (3/3)

0:15am TONIGHT on @BBCFOUR

Hugh MacDiarmid: Rebel Poet

A 1972 profile of celebrated Scottish poet #HughMacDiarmid
on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He talks about his uncompromising life & the ideas & circumstances that have shaped its progress

#PoetryThursday www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Let me be clear. When I think of great poets, I love #EmilyDickenson #CarolAnnDuffy #DylanThomas #HughMacdiarmid #LordByron and #Shakespeare. However, I also consider #Tupac #IceCube, #EasyE #Haystack and #Eminem to be just as great.

It discusses his work using five emblematic trees, sort of relating to the way Graves discusses the Celtic Alphabet of Trees as a sort of memory forest. (‘Sort of’ is doing a lot of work in the preceding sentence.)

#HughMacDiarmid #RobertGravesReview (2/3)