Scots Word of the week
hamesucken n. (the crime of committing) an assault upon a person in his or her house
Hamesucken is a term that is deeply embedded in Scots law and has been in use throughout the entire history of the language. It derives from Old En...
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Hugh MacDiarmid – A Portrait
To celebrate the anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s birth in August 1892, the Scots Language Centre is pleased to give visitors the chance to enjoy Margaret Tait’s fil, Hugh MacDiarmid – A Portrait. The Centre is grateful to Alex Pirie and Lux for giving permission to show the film on this site.
Read more about the film, Hugh MacDiarmid and Maragret Tait.
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Hugh MacDiarmid- A Portrait by Margaret Tait (1964)
'An original kind of tribute' is what George Mackay Brown called Tait's 1964 documentary about one of Scotland's greatest poets; Hugh MacDiarmid.
"A study of the poet, who was seventy-one at the time. There is straightforward material, of him in his own home, and, in addition to speaking his own poems, the poet gracefully enacts the filmmaker's interpretation of them. The poems heard are 'You know who I am', 'Somersault', 'Krang' and some lines out of 'The Kind of Poetry I want'. The music is Francis George Scott's setting of MacDiarmid's 'The Eemis Stane', sung by Duncan Robertson accompanied on the piano by Olive Ogston." ...
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Margaret Tait
Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most individual artist filmmakers. Over the course of 46 years she produced over 30 films including one feature, Blue Black Permanent (1992) and published five books of poetry and short stories, while living between the Island of Orkney and Edinburgh.
Margaret described her life's work as consisting of making film-poems. She often quoted Lorca's phrase of 'stalking the image' to define her philosophy and method, the idea that if you look at an object closely enough it will speak its nature. This clarity of vision and purpose with an attention to simple commonplace subjects combined with a rare sens...
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The Watergaw
Listen to Hugh MacDiarmid talk about and read his masterpiece, the Watergaw.
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