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‘Every MSP should know a Hugh MacDiarmid poem by heart’

IF one of Scotland’s early pioneers of independence had one message for the movement today, it would be “take action”, according to the author…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 25, 2023

Alan Riach launches new poetry collection The MacDiarmid Memorandum at library event

Alan Riach will launch his new poetry collection at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, on 29 June.

The National (Scotland) · Jun 18, 2023

Alan Riach: Let's open the window wider on this book that is not a book

Alan Riach starts to unpick the threads that have kept our lips stitched closed too long ...

The National (Scotland) · Jun 5, 2023

Rodge Glass on growing up Jewish in Manchester and coming to Glasgow

ALASDAIR Gray once famously – or notoriously – referred to incomers to Scotland as “settlers” or “colonists” and his biographer,

The National (Scotland) · Jun 27, 2022

Gray Studies: Meet the man keeping the spirit of Alasdair Gray alive

FOLLOWING on from the Alasdair Gray conference last week, Alan Riach asks a few questions of the conference convener, the novelist and Alasdair…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 20, 2022

Alan Riach interviews Gerda Stevenson on songs, stories and the voice

ALAN Riach continues his conversation with poet, director, actor and author Gerda Stevenson about the art of writing

The National (Scotland) · May 23, 2022

Alan Riach interviews Gerda Stevenson on the art of writing

WITH her collection of biographical poems Quines: Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland, and her book of short stories Letting Go, Gerda Stevenson…

The National (Scotland) · May 16, 2022