Poetry and Stories

MacDiarmid’s Sangschaw 100 year Anniversary

Hugh MacDiarmid’s ground-breaking volume of lyric poems in Scots, Sangschaw, was published in 1925. This book heralded the Scottish Renaissance which is still evolving today. To celebrate this centenary anniversary MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank will present a full reading of the poems. Readers will include Gerry Cambridge, Chris Grieve, Sally Magnusson, Alan Riach and James Robertson. There will also be musical performances from Kirsteen McCue & David Hamilton, Jane Grieve, and pupils from Black Mount Primary School.