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Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is best known for his works written in 'synthetic Scots', or Lallans, a literary version of the Scots language that MacDiarmid himself developed.
The son of a postman, MacDiarmid was born in the town of Langholm, Dumfriesshire. He was educated at Langholm Academy before becoming a teacher for a brief time at Broughton Higher Grade School in Edinburgh. He began his writing career as a journalist in Wales, contributing to the socialist newspaper The Merthyr Pioneer run by Labour party founder Keir Hardie before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps on the outbreak of the First World War. He served in Salonica, Greece and France before developing cerebral malaria and subsequently returning to Scotland in 1918. MacDiarmid's time in the army was influential in his political and artistic development.
After the war he continued to work as a journalist, living in Montrose where he became editor and reporter of the Montrose Review as well as a Justice of the Peace and a member of the county council. In 1923 his first book, Annals of the Five Senses, was published at his own expense, followed by 'Sangschaw' in 1925 and 'Penny Wheep' and 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' in 1926. A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, is generally regarded as MacDiarmid's most famous and influential work.
Tait's affectionate portrait of Scotland's great poet (1892-1978) who remains a controversial and influential figure. Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait, is from the online Poetry Exhibition. To view the other films in the exhibition, please go to the LUX website. http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/margaret_tait/hugh_macdiarmid-_a_portrait.html
Second Hymn To Lenin by Hugh MacDiarmid was written in 1932 and published in 1935. The poem expresses what MacDiarmid feels poetry's role should be in a revolutionary society - and for MacDiarmid, the role of a revolutionary society is to lay the conditions for better poetry. MacDiarmid was not an orthodox Marxist-Leninist but he still found in communism a public mythos which he felt may replace Christianity. That any society should still face 'breid and butter problems' was alarming to him, and so his age was in cultural terms, according to him, still 'at the monkey stage.' Read the poem here at marxist.org : https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1960/isj001/mcdiarmid.html
Scottish and Welsh devolution is on a knife edge because of the guillotine vote and the prospect of the Government losing that vote. Thames Televisions 'People and Politics' debate that prospect. First shown: 21/02/1977 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia.com Quote: VT 1369
"Edinburgh" by Hugh MacDiarmid, from LUCKY POET (1943). You will probably see an advertisement with this clip as I used a few seconds of Pathe news footage, which was copyright-enforced. Otherwise there are never any advertisements on this channel. For the video accompanying this reading I have used clips from the following YouTube uploads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeeAi683jWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1rSReqXI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IZqoAs6mnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvxnr1qu9I
Alex Salmond MP recites The Little White Rose by Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid is the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978). Instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. But what is it all about? See genericwaz on www.fluentfuture.com
Le président-directeur général dEACL, Hugh MacDiarmid, explique comment la recherche à léchelle mondiale de spécialistes pour aider aux travaux de réparation du réacteur NRU a mené léquipe dEACL à lentreprise Liburdi Automation Inc., située ici même à Dundas, en Ontario.
Tait's affectionate portrait of Scotland's great poet (1892-1978) who remains a controversial and influential figure. Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait, is from the online Poetry Exhibition. To view the other films in the exhibition, please go to the LUX website. http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/margaret_tait/hugh_macdiarmid-_a_portrait.html
Second Hymn To Lenin by Hugh MacDiarmid was written in 1932 and published in 1935. The poem expresses what MacDiarmid feels poetry's role should be in a revolutionary society - and for MacDiarmid, the role of a revolutionary society is to lay the conditions for better poetry. MacDiarmid was not an orthodox Marxist-Leninist but he still found in communism a public mythos which he felt may replace Christianity. That any society should still face 'breid and butter problems' was alarming to him, and so his age was in cultural terms, according to him, still 'at the monkey stage.' Read the poem here at marxist.org : https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1960/isj001/mcdiarmid.html
Scottish and Welsh devolution is on a knife edge because of the guillotine vote and the prospect of the Government losing that vote. Thames Televisions 'People and Politics' debate that prospect. First shown: 21/02/1977 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia.com Quote: VT 1369
"Edinburgh" by Hugh MacDiarmid, from LUCKY POET (1943). You will probably see an advertisement with this clip as I used a few seconds of Pathe news footage, which was copyright-enforced. Otherwise there are never any advertisements on this channel. For the video accompanying this reading I have used clips from the following YouTube uploads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeeAi683jWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1rSReqXI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IZqoAs6mnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvxnr1qu9I
Alex Salmond MP recites The Little White Rose by Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid is the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978). Instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. But what is it all about? See genericwaz on www.fluentfuture.com
Le président-directeur général dEACL, Hugh MacDiarmid, explique comment la recherche à léchelle mondiale de spécialistes pour aider aux travaux de réparation du réacteur NRU a mené léquipe dEACL à lentreprise Liburdi Automation Inc., située ici même à Dundas, en Ontario.
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Scottish and Welsh devolution is on a knife edge because of the guillotine vote and the prospect of the Government losing that vote. Thames Televisions 'People and Politics' debate that prospect. First shown: 21/02/1977 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia.com Quote: VT 1369
From Renaissance to Referendum tells the story of modern Scottish poetry. Over six events in 2015 and 2016, academics and poets trace the changes in Scottish culture since the end of WWII through its poetry. Our first event took place on October 1 at the Saltire Society with Margery Palmer McCulloch (University of Glasgow) and Alex Thomson (University of Edinburgh) considering Hugh MacDiarmid as the controversial key figure in a movement that sought to reinvigorate Scottish nationalism by embracing modernism.
#BBCBias IV via Independence Live Livestream Glasgow Green 16th August 2014 "A foray frae the past—and future tae Sin Time’s a blindness we’ll thraw aff some day!) For we ha’e faith in Scotland’s hidden poo’ers, The present’s theirs, but a’ the past and future’s oors." ~ Hugh MacDiarmid Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/Vksq/
Shakespeare and Company Bookshop, Paris, March 18 2013 : International Writer's Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962. Jim Haynes and John Calder with editors Angela Bartie and Eleanor Bell in this commemorative event, as they talk with the original Conference organisers - pioneering publisher John Calder and seminal arts figure Jim Haynes - about their memories of the ground-breaking 1962 International Writers' Conference. Traveling from all corners of the globe, delegates included Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Hugh MacDiarmid, Muriel Spark, Alexander Trocchi, Lawrence Durrell, Stephen Spender, Erich Fried and Khushwant Singh. Heady and confrontational, the "Roman amphitheatre" environment of the city's McEwan Hall saw fierce discussion of censorship, the future of the n...
William McGonagall - The Tay Bridge Disaster (1879) - poem G.W.Hunt - 'By Jingo' (1877) & Henry Pettitt 'I Don't Want to Fight' (1878) -music-hall songs Patrick MacGill - Played Out (1916) - poem Bob Stewart - An Anti-Militarist Version of 'A Man's A Man' (1917) - song John S Clarke - If? (1919) - poem parodying Kipling Joe Hill - Casey Jones (early 20th C) - Wobbly song Hugh MacDiarmid - Crowdieknowe (1925) - poem Traditional - Jarama Valley (Spain, 1930s) - song Sorley MacLean - Heroes (1940s) - poem Matt McGinn - Boomerang (1950s) - song Thurso Berwick (Maurice Blytheman) - The Eskimo Republic (1960s) - song David Betteridge - Fighting Back (2008) - poem Ewan McVicar - Ga's Song (1980s) - song Hamish Henderson - Freedom Come All Ye (1960s) - song/art poem
Questions & Answers http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star: Our Class Our Culture series. Recorded Tuesday 5th April 2011 in Bathgate. Poet Alaistair Finlay, chaired by Jim Swan Poetry Working Class Movement Morning Star Our Class Our Culture series Jim Maclean mclean wuille William willie gallacher Lenin hugh macdiarmid Christopher Murray Grieve norman mccaig socialism progressive socialist Miners strike NUM
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star: Our Class Our Culture series (Broad Left meetings in the name of the only Socialist daily, not a Communist Party meeting). Recorded Tuesday 5th April 2011 in Bathgate. Poet Alaistair Finlay, chaired by Jim Swan Poetry Working Class Movement Morning Star Our Class Our Culture series Jim Maclean mclean wuille William willie gallacher Lenin hugh macdiarmid Christopher Murray Grieve norman mccaig russian revolution Communist Party britain scotland Communism socialism progressive socialist
W.N. Herbert was born in Dundee, Scotland and received his D.Phil. from Brasenose College, Oxford, where he published his thesis on the Scots poet, Hugh MacDiarmid. He has published seven volumes of poetry and four pamphlets and is widely anthologized. His last five collections, all with the northern publisher Bloodaxe, have won numerous accolades. His most recent Bloodaxe collection, Bad Shaman Blues (2006), was a PBS Recommendation, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Saltire prizes. Since 2001 he has been the lead poet for the award-winning Westpark development in Darlington, a text-led public art project. His most recent public art piece, "Pentad," is positioned outside the Robinson Library on Newcastle University campus. In recent years he has focused on literary translation,...