Athnamulloch bothy, Glen Affric. Pic: Iain MacDiarmid.
February 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Athnamulloch bothy, Glen Affric. Pic: Iain MacDiarmid.
But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream.
Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scotland2026 #Edinburgh #HughMacDiarmid #Photography #BNW #blackandwhitephotography #Architecture
Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scotland2026 #Edinburgh #HughMacDiarmid #Photography #BNW #blackandwhitephotography #Architecture
January 1, 2026 at 3:54 AM
But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream.
Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scotland2026 #Edinburgh #HughMacDiarmid #Photography #BNW #blackandwhitephotography #Architecture
Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scotland2026 #Edinburgh #HughMacDiarmid #Photography #BNW #blackandwhitephotography #Architecture
Hugh MacDiarmid was wrong to say that everything bad in Scotland stemmed from the Reformation. But in another sense he actually was very much correct
Remains a demented choice. We could have had bùlangeraichean serving baguettes with square sausage. But no. You wanted to be Protestant.
September 30, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Hugh MacDiarmid was wrong to say that everything bad in Scotland stemmed from the Reformation. But in another sense he actually was very much correct
some personal news that has been a secret for quite some time 🤭
Dr Samuel Mehr - 2023 Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist, Aotearoa New Zealand
The Prime Minister’s Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist 2023 is Dr Samuel Mehr, a Rutherford Discovery Fellow based at the School of Psy...
youtu.be
May 1, 2024 at 9:00 PM
some personal news that has been a secret for quite some time 🤭
April 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
'...deep surroundin' darkness
Is aye the price o' licht.'
Hugh MacDiarmid
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Ph: mpb
Is aye the price o' licht.'
Hugh MacDiarmid
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Ph: mpb
December 6, 2024 at 3:47 PM
'...deep surroundin' darkness
Is aye the price o' licht.'
Hugh MacDiarmid
.
Ph: mpb
Is aye the price o' licht.'
Hugh MacDiarmid
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Ph: mpb
‘Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream’ - Hugh MacDiarmid
April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
‘Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream’ - Hugh MacDiarmid
“Hugh MacDiarmid” wasn’t really called Hugh MacDiarmid, and his version of Scots wasn’t something anyone spoke — but he made mysterious modernist poetry out of old dictionaries. I wrote about his famous poem “The Watergaw”, and how one phrase in it seems to have been obscure even to the poet himself
The Laverock's Hoose
Reading Hugh MacDiarmid on a cold, dark night
someflowerssoon.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“Hugh MacDiarmid” wasn’t really called Hugh MacDiarmid, and his version of Scots wasn’t something anyone spoke — but he made mysterious modernist poetry out of old dictionaries. I wrote about his famous poem “The Watergaw”, and how one phrase in it seems to have been obscure even to the poet himself
March 28, 2024 at 4:51 PM
the current NZ govt is so anti-science that they've changed eligibility for the Prime Minister's Science Prizes to rule out awards to people doing basic science
eg from 2026 the MacDiarmid is for work with "potential to generate econ, health, social, or env benefits for New Zealand"
#nzpol
eg from 2026 the MacDiarmid is for work with "potential to generate econ, health, social, or env benefits for New Zealand"
#nzpol
July 28, 2026 at 5:47 AM
the current NZ govt is so anti-science that they've changed eligibility for the Prime Minister's Science Prizes to rule out awards to people doing basic science
eg from 2026 the MacDiarmid is for work with "potential to generate econ, health, social, or env benefits for New Zealand"
#nzpol
eg from 2026 the MacDiarmid is for work with "potential to generate econ, health, social, or env benefits for New Zealand"
#nzpol
January 29, 2026 at 12:19 AM
A new essay by Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social, reflecting on his personal journey to 'tidal poetics' in the wake of MacDiarmid, Black Mountain, and others. tinyurl.com/4pt25a79
October 5, 2026 at 11:18 AM
A new essay by Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social, reflecting on his personal journey to 'tidal poetics' in the wake of MacDiarmid, Black Mountain, and others. tinyurl.com/4pt25a79
Movie should have ended with Rey saying "Rey Palpatine" and laughing maniacally Ian MacDiarmid style.
June 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Movie should have ended with Rey saying "Rey Palpatine" and laughing maniacally Ian MacDiarmid style.
Hugh MacDiarmid
July 14, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Hugh MacDiarmid
word-mntn (Little Pap, Wee Tit), Lochnagar, photo Sam MacDiarmid, Day of Access, Ballochbuie
September 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
word-mntn (Little Pap, Wee Tit), Lochnagar, photo Sam MacDiarmid, Day of Access, Ballochbuie
"The thistle rises and forever will,
Getherin’ the generations under’t.
This is the monument o’ a’ they were,
And a’ they hoped and wondered."
Hugh MacDiarmid (1929)
#photography #thistle #silhouette #poetry #MacDiarmid #Scotland #Scots #Independence #hope #symbol #nation
Getherin’ the generations under’t.
This is the monument o’ a’ they were,
And a’ they hoped and wondered."
Hugh MacDiarmid (1929)
#photography #thistle #silhouette #poetry #MacDiarmid #Scotland #Scots #Independence #hope #symbol #nation
November 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"The thistle rises and forever will,
Getherin’ the generations under’t.
This is the monument o’ a’ they were,
And a’ they hoped and wondered."
Hugh MacDiarmid (1929)
#photography #thistle #silhouette #poetry #MacDiarmid #Scotland #Scots #Independence #hope #symbol #nation
Getherin’ the generations under’t.
This is the monument o’ a’ they were,
And a’ they hoped and wondered."
Hugh MacDiarmid (1929)
#photography #thistle #silhouette #poetry #MacDiarmid #Scotland #Scots #Independence #hope #symbol #nation
"...everything I write, of course, / Is an extended metaphor for something I never mention."
– Hugh MacDiarmid
– Hugh MacDiarmid
March 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"...everything I write, of course, / Is an extended metaphor for something I never mention."
– Hugh MacDiarmid
– Hugh MacDiarmid
For #NationalPoetryDay an early Hugh MacDiarmid lyric - The Bonnie Broukit Bairn - the beautiful neglected child.
October 1, 2026 at 5:47 PM
For #NationalPoetryDay an early Hugh MacDiarmid lyric - The Bonnie Broukit Bairn - the beautiful neglected child.
"The thistle rises and forever will,
Get up!"
Hugh MacDiarmid
#photography #thistle #Scotland #Independence #silhouette #ScottishThistle #wildlife #plants #nature #sky #skyglow
Get up!"
Hugh MacDiarmid
#photography #thistle #Scotland #Independence #silhouette #ScottishThistle #wildlife #plants #nature #sky #skyglow
April 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"The thistle rises and forever will,
Get up!"
Hugh MacDiarmid
#photography #thistle #Scotland #Independence #silhouette #ScottishThistle #wildlife #plants #nature #sky #skyglow
Get up!"
Hugh MacDiarmid
#photography #thistle #Scotland #Independence #silhouette #ScottishThistle #wildlife #plants #nature #sky #skyglow
Another letter to the NZ government about funding cuts to basic science, this time from several of us winners of the Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize.
Letter From Winners Of The Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize
We write to voice our disagreement with the decision to alter the Terms of Reference of the Marsden Fund such that 'approximately 50 percent of funds will go towards supporting proposals with economic...
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December 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Another letter to the NZ government about funding cuts to basic science, this time from several of us winners of the Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize.
But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth…
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
published in The Complete Poems (1978)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry #Edinburgh
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth…
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
published in The Complete Poems (1978)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry #Edinburgh
April 18, 2026 at 11:32 AM
But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth…
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
published in The Complete Poems (1978)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry #Edinburgh
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth…
—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
published in The Complete Poems (1978)
#BookWormSat #WorldHeritageDay #poem #poetry #Edinburgh
I feel your plight and have no name for it.
Let us lament together—the broken mirror
And you found naked in your hiding place.
bit of Requiem for a Friend
Rilke tr Macdiarmid
#poetrysunday
Let us lament together—the broken mirror
And you found naked in your hiding place.
bit of Requiem for a Friend
Rilke tr Macdiarmid
#poetrysunday
October 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I feel your plight and have no name for it.
Let us lament together—the broken mirror
And you found naked in your hiding place.
bit of Requiem for a Friend
Rilke tr Macdiarmid
#poetrysunday
Let us lament together—the broken mirror
And you found naked in your hiding place.
bit of Requiem for a Friend
Rilke tr Macdiarmid
#poetrysunday
"The thistle rises and forever will,
Getherin’ the generations under’t.
This is the monument o’ a’ they were,
And a’ they hoped and wondered."
Hugh MacDiarmid (1926)
#photography #thistle #Scotland #poetry #MacDiarmid #PotD #sunrise #dawn #hope #dream #independence #Scots #KeepTheDreamAlive
Getherin’ the generations under’t.
This is the monument o’ a’ they were,
And a’ they hoped and wondered."
Hugh MacDiarmid (1926)
#photography #thistle #Scotland #poetry #MacDiarmid #PotD #sunrise #dawn #hope #dream #independence #Scots #KeepTheDreamAlive
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
"The thistle rises and forever will,
Getherin’ the generations under’t.
This is the monument o’ a’ they were,
And a’ they hoped and wondered."
Hugh MacDiarmid (1926)
#photography #thistle #Scotland #poetry #MacDiarmid #PotD #sunrise #dawn #hope #dream #independence #Scots #KeepTheDreamAlive
Getherin’ the generations under’t.
This is the monument o’ a’ they were,
And a’ they hoped and wondered."
Hugh MacDiarmid (1926)
#photography #thistle #Scotland #poetry #MacDiarmid #PotD #sunrise #dawn #hope #dream #independence #Scots #KeepTheDreamAlive
hugh macdiarmid was proud of being expelled from both the SNP and the Communist Party of Great Britain but did he possibly consider that both just found him extremely annoying
April 14, 2026 at 10:04 AM
hugh macdiarmid was proud of being expelled from both the SNP and the Communist Party of Great Britain but did he possibly consider that both just found him extremely annoying
A look at freedom of expression and a debate where renowned poet Hugh MacDiarmid shared a platform with revolutionary Malcolm X 👀👇
'Authentic revolutionary: When Malcolm X Found an Ally in Hugh MacDiarmid
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November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A look at freedom of expression and a debate where renowned poet Hugh MacDiarmid shared a platform with revolutionary Malcolm X 👀👇