Tagged: Hugh MacDiarmid

communist poets / latest updates / new videos / week 3

October 24, 2018

Three excerpts from Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”—new videos with Christie Williamson

We have now added Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 3. Or, to be more precise, we discuss three passages from that long poem. Joining...

ModPoPLUS / video / week 5

September 21, 2018

Coming soon: new ModPoPLUS video on Hugh MacDiarmid

Today we recorded a new two-part video discussion of Hugh MacDiarmid’s modernist epic poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, which was written in “braid Scots verse.” We were joined by Scottish poet Christie...