Life, letters & low tide in Shetland: Valda and MacDiarmid

“Valda is clearly the more practical of the two. It would become apparent that without her at the helm, they were doomed.”

Shetland offered Hugh MacDiarmid solitude, but it was his wife Valda Trevlyn Grieve who kept life steady. Dr Colin McIlroy of the National Library of Scotland examines the letters of Hugh MacDiarmid & Valda Trevlyn Grieve

https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/literature-and-poetry/valda-grieve-and-hugh-macdiarmid/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #Shetland

Moneycentre, Plymouth, 2021

📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/moneycentre-plymouth-2021/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon

#iphonephotography #photography #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #plymouth

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Schönberg - Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 - Pina Napolitano
https://youtu.be/c7K0U3cYm6w?si=Ah3v5MgMfsvSylrB

Take a few minutes to listen, even if your usual reaction to Schönberg is to scroll past.

I'm no expert on Schönberg, the Second Viennese School, or atonal music. Nevertheless, I always enjoy listening to these six little pieces for the piano.

It's rather like visiting a foreign city, where I don't speak much of the language. Although I don't get as much out of my visit as a native of the city or a fluent speaker might, I still enjoy exploring and picking up what I can.

See also ....

#Piano #Schönberg #SechsKleineKlavierstücke #Modernism

“The life & career of the gifted Glaswegian writer Catherine Carswell was marked by such alarming & recurrent notoriety that her present obscurity is baffling”

—Emma Garman in the Paris Review on the life & work of Catherine Carswell (1879–1946)—born #OTD, 27 March

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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/10/feminize-your-canon-catherine-carswell/

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #womenwriters

Some beautiful photos of the Berlin ICC, one of my favourite disused buildings, in the Modernist zine this quarter (amongst many other things)

https://the-modernist.org/collections/the-modernist-magazine/products/the-modernist-magazine-issue-56-pleasure

#modernism #brutalism #architecture #icc #berlin

Two Ladies Taking a Walk (19th century) by Constantin Guys.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9b3a5704-4121-433f-ae24-78770302d38d

#abstract #modernity #illness #modernism #convalescence #movement #walking #paris #art #publicdomain