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Review of The Revolutionary Art of the Future: re-discovered poems - Matthew Francis, The TLS
'...these are products of the imagination of Scotland's greatest modern poet. In "Bramble Spray in Autumn Woods" he shows his ability to enlist nature to his cause: "Do I wish my poetry to be / Like a star, a mountain, a mighty tree?" he asks himself, and replies, "No! I am content to have it show / As a few bramble leaves in thinned woodlands do". The vision introduced by this unpromising beginning is compellingly beautiful: "glowing lines of the vines / Canary, scarlet, crimson, claret". One is reminded of a similar epiphany in In Memoriam James Joyce, where MacDiarmid compares his own wilful inconsistency to the many colours of the hawthorn, "purple-maroon, rose-madder and straw". It is the image rather than the bumptious rhetoric that remains in the mind.
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