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210d

“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" class="ellipsis" title="www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/">https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/</a><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/macdiarmid/" rel="tag">#MacDiarmid</a> <a href="/tags/hughmacdiarmid/" rel="tag">#HughMacDiarmid</a>

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209d

The 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="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 9 September<a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/">https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/</a><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/macdiarmid/" rel="tag">#MacDiarmid</a> <a href="/tags/hughmacdiarmid/" rel="tag">#HughMacDiarmid</a>

In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Alastair Mackie

The 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.

Sma spirit, ye couped yoursel oot like an ocean
and on it ye sailed tae your odyssey.
Your poems set their bows for the infinite.
It was a sma bit coble made o Scots.

Ahent the muckle brae-face o your brou
barmed the thochts. They were like boolders,
ram-stam, ramgunshoch, aften wilyart. Polyphemus
hurlin craigs at the galleys’ hotterin starns.

And aye the sky-line cockit its fore-finger.
For fifty years laneliness was your crony.
Your spaces were polar anes, the cauld burn
o your mind the aixle-tree that iled your world.

I think o Pascal’s infinite spaces
and Scotland a wee dot in the abyss.
You gied it a starn; the muckle hole skinkles
yet in the licht. Sic matter never dees.

The terror that I feel is for the muckle howe-hole
your last sleep leaves ahent. As if a mountain
that held up the lyft had sunk intae the mools
and suddenly the sky-line’s unfrienly.

And oor steps styter and Scotland’s again
‘the bonny broukit bairn’. Lie back in your kist
licht bearer. And may the giant back-birn
ye cairriet lie lichtly in the earth’s happin.

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238d

I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt That damns the vast majority o’ men.—from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 11 Aug 18921/8<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-macdiarmid" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-macdiarmid">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-macdiarmid</a><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/modernism/" rel="tag">#modernism</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/macdiarmid/" rel="tag">#MacDiarmid</a>

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