2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
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This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...
