The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
Hugh MacDiarmid

Mars is braw in crammasy,
Venus in a green silk goun,
The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers,
Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’,
Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn!
– But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun
The haill clanjamfrie!

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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)

The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.

—Hugh MacDiarmid

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose

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Hugh MacDiarmid at 100

A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name

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https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1/

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Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait

Margaret Tait’s affectionate 1964 biography of Hugh MacDiarmid

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f3BbuqaiY

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“It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry […]. He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
—1931 British Security Service report

read “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”, by Scott Lyall

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hugh-macdiarmid-and-the-british-state/

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“Only this paradox can explain why he was at certain points in his life an admirer of Italian fascism, a Social Credit Douglasite, a major member of the militaristic nationalist group ‘Clann Albain’, a Scottish Nationalist, and a Communist, amongst other things”

A Man in Constant Revolt: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry of World War Two
Richie McCaffery, International Review of Scottish Studies 43 (2018)

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https://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/index.php/irss/article/view/4541

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“What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world and explore it, and the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since.”

—Alan Riach, on 100 Years of Hugh MacDiarmid

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/100-years-of-hugh-macdiarmid/

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