There’s a sang that stouns
wi the hert’s bluid
that only yersel can hear…

—Ellie McDonald, “For Hamish Henderson on his 80th Birthday”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2016)

10/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

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Here’s a glorious rendition of Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, sung by Karine Polwart in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today

9/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhuH2K5yzw

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Roch the wind in the clear day’s dawin
Blaws the cloods heelster-gowdie ow’r the bay,
But there’s mair nor a roch wind blawin
Through the great glen o’ the warld the day…

—Hamish Henderson, “The Freedom Come-All-Ye”
published in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks

8/10

https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/

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Hamish Henderson reading four poems: “Glasclune & Drumlochy”; “The Cell 1”; “The Cell 2”; & his translation of “Chimaera” by Dino Campana. Recorded in April 1986 by Alexander Hutchison at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Scottish Studies

7/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTGHuddIOag

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“One of the beastly sins of modern Scotland [is] that it’s a bit ashamed of the rich, riotous, very bawdy but also high-spirited kindly & generous past.”

—Dr Sarah Leith on Hamish Henderson’s reimagining of Scottish identity

6/10

https://scottishcriticalheritage.wordpress.com/2019/11/11/sex-whisky-and-rock-and-reel-hamish-hendersons-reimagining-of-scottish-identity/

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“The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” ☝️ is based on a 16th-century German folksong, “Streitlied zwischen Leben und Tod”. You can listen to Henderson’s poem being sung here by Alison McMorland

5/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAheJjneNV4

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Quo daith, the warld is mine.
Whit sterts in dreid, gangs doon in pain
Bairns wintin’ breid are makin’ mane
Quo daith, the warld is mine…

—Hamish Henderson’s “The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” is a poetical battle between the forces of creation & destruction

4/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

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“The revolutionary & insurrectionary spirit of radical love is very much present in Henderson, a wanderer at the creative edge, forever pushing back against the domineering discourses of officialdom”

—Mairi McFadyen: Hamish Henderson & the Liberated Life

3/10

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/08/16/hamish-henderson-and-the-liberated-life/

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