‘ANIARA: en revy om människan i tid och rum’ – 60 years since its publication by Bonniers, Stockholm – 1956-2016 TAGS: Aniara | Elspeth Harley Schubert | Harry Martinson | Hugh MacDiarmid III – IN THE HUGH MACDIARMID COLLECTION…: MS LETTERS AND OTHER MATERIAL RELATING TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION of ANIARA BY MACDIARMID AND ELSPETH HARLEY SCHUBERT, 1963 13 October 2016 sees …Continue reading →

Hugh MacDiarmid and Mary Poppins: An Unpublished Letter in EU Archives TAGS: Hugh MacDiarmid | PL Travers An unpublished letter from Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers to Hugh MacDiarmid in Edinburgh University’s C. M. Grieve Archive casts further light on the surprising relationship between the two …Continue reading →

MacDiarmid in ‘Thistleonica’: A Poem from a Forgotten Front TAGS: Andrew Graham Grieve | Christopher Murray Grieve | Hugh MacDiarmid The Papers of Andrew Graham Grieve (Gen. 2236) include a poem from a forgotten front of the First World War written by his older brother Christopher Murray Grieve, later to …Continue reading →

MacDiarmid and ‘Nisbet: An interlude in post-war Glasgow’ TAGS: Hugh MacDiarmid | Scottish Literary Papers II – IN THE HUGH MACDIARMID COLLECTION…: MS LETTER FROM THE PROJECT THEATRE, GLASGOW… NEW PLAYS ‘PROJECT’ NEW IDEAS Among the many letters to Hugh MacDiarmid from producers and directors  …Continue reading →

William Soutar’s Caricatures of Hugh MacDiarmid TAGS: Hugh MacDiarmid | Scotish Literary Papers | William Soutar A few days ago I gave a talk to the Friends of William Soutar in Perth on the friendship between Soutar and his fellow Scots poet Hugh MacDiarmid, as illustrated …Continue reading →

New Guide to Scottish Literary Papers TAGS: George Mackay Brown | Hugh MacDiarmid | Norman MacCaig | Scottish Literary Papers | Sydney Goodsir Smith A new online guide to some of our major collections of Scottish literary papers is now available on the Centre for Research Collections website. It provides an overview of fourteen …Continue reading →

‘Who is that chap with the terrific head?!’ TAGS: CRC | Edinburgh University Special Collections | Hugh MacDiarmid | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | R H Westwater | Robert Heriot Westwater Robert Heriot Westwater’s most famous portrait is probably that of Christopher Murray Grieve (more widely known by his nom de plume,  Hugh McDiarmid!).  But Westwater also painted two very different …Continue reading →