The MacDiarmid Memorandum: Poems by Alan Riach, Paintings by Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nichol - Couverture souple

Riach, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910895792 ISBN 13 : 9781910895795

Editeur : Scotland Street Press, 2023

Synopsis

Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; blending biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Riach’s poems begin with MacDiarmid’s childhood in Langholm and his first attempts to navigate the Scottish landscape. We travel from the Borders to Shetland, from Edinburgh to rural Lanarkshire. The poems map a nation where nature is inseparable from political history. They explore a peculiarly Scottish kind of consciousness, willing itself to be free yet bowed under the weight of self-suppression. There is confrontation on various fronts. MacDiarmid experienced trauma, divorce, breakdown, wildness and later, domestic affection. At the same time, Scotland endured two world wars, each triggering a continuing renaissance of Scottish artists and intellectuals, struggling to regenerate international recognition and self-determination.

Alongside Riach’s poems, the book includes reproductions of paintings by the artists Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol, focusing on some of the landscapes, friends and associates MacDiarmid knew most closely through his long life, plus a frontispiece portrait by William Johnstone and a song-setting by Ronald Stevenson.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

ALAN RIACH is Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, the author of eight poetry collections, including Homecoming and The Winter Book, six books of literary and cultural criticism, and General Editor of the Carcanet edition of the Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid.

ALEXANDER MOFFAT is a painter, teacher and advocate of the arts, formerly head of Painting at Glasgow School of Art, whose works are held at the National Galleries of Scotland, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow and the Royal Scottish Academy.

RUTH NICOL is an artist whose work is held in the Scottish Parliament and represented by the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, the Line Gallery, Linlithgow and the Junor Gallery, St Andrews, and is regularly shown at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute and Paisley Art Institute.

ALEXANDER MOFFAT is a painter, teacher and advocate of the arts, formerly head of Painting at Glasgow School of Art, whose works are held at the National Galleries of Scotland, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow and the Royal Scottish Academy.. RUTH NICOL is an artist whose work is held in the Scottish Parliament and represented by the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, the Line Gallery, Linlithgow and the Junor Gallery, St Andrews, and is regularly shown at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute and Paisley Art Institute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scotland Street Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910895792
• ISBN 13: 9781910895795
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible