Carcanet Press - The Raucle Tongue: Volume One

The Raucle Tongue: Volume One

Imprint: Lives and Letters
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Available as:

Hardback (320 pages)

(Pub. Jan 1997)

9781857542349

£30.00

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These volumes contain the previously uncollected essays, journalism and interviews of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include Complete Poems, Lucky Poet, Contemporary Scottish Studies and Scottish Eccentrics.

Hugh MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) was born in 1892 at Langholm in the Scottish Borders. After training as a teacher, he worked as a journalist, before serving in France and Greece during the First World War. Returning to Scotland, he worked as a journalist, and in 1922 began to publish poems ... read more

Alan Riach

Alan Riach is a poet, teacher and critic, and the general editor of Carcanet’s Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid . ... read more

Praise for Hugh MacDiarmid 'Watch him, an angel's set his tongue on fire.'
Norman MacCaig
'Lord God, this fellow is a poet, singing a song even when pain seizes him, or the woe of the world murmurs in his heart'
Sean O'Casey
'Every door in any town should be wide open to that great lyric poet Hugh MacDiarmid.'
Dylan Thomas
'These great people like MacDiarmid are a bit scary, '
Liz Lochhead 'Riach has done Scottish literature a great service in masterminding the Carcanet edition of the works of Hugh MacDiarmid...'
Times Literary Supplement

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The Raucle Tongue: Volume One Hugh MacDiarmid Edited by Alan Riach Imprint: Lives and Letters Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Hardback (320 pages) (Pub. Jan 1997) 9781857542349 £30.00 Description Author Reviews These volumes contain the previously uncollected essays, journalism and interviews of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include Complete Poems, Lucky Poet, Contemporary Scottish Studies and Scottish Eccentrics. Hugh MacDiarmid Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) was born in 1892 at Langholm in the Scottish Borders. After training as a teacher, he worked as a journalist, before serving in France and Greece during the First World War. Returning to Scotland, he worked as a journalist, and in 1922 began to publish poems ... read more Alan Riach Alan Riach is a poet, teacher and critic, and the general editor of Carcanet’s Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid . ... read more Praise for Hugh MacDiarmid 'Watch him, an angel's set his tongue on fire.' Norman MacCaig 'Lord God, this fellow is a poet, singing a song even when pain seizes him, or the woe of the world murmurs in his heart' Sean O'Casey 'Every door in any town should be wide open to that great lyric poet Hugh MacDiarmid.' Dylan Thomas 'These great people like MacDiarmid are a bit scary, ' Liz Lochhead 'Riach has done Scottish literature a great service in masterminding the Carcanet edition of the works of Hugh MacDiarmid...' Times Literary Supplement	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! Anvil Press Poetry Aspects of Portugal Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Little Island Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog A Homeric Convention: Robert Wells read more Forty Names: Parwana Fayyaz read more Gregory Woods: Under the Bonnet read more PNR 259: Editorial read more Emily Skillings: Wicked Weather read more About Mother Muse: Lorna Goodison read more
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The Raucle Tongue: Volume One

Hugh MacDiarmid

Edited by Alan Riach