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Another Look at the Thistle The work of Hugh MacDiarmid still bulks large in the minds of Scottish writers: but it's nearly 60 years since the appearance of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Is there any such urgency and energy in Scottish poetry today?
Neil Corcoran , Lecturer in English at Sheffield
University, explores the preoccupations of recent
Scottish poetry and assesses its achievements.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

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Hugh MacDiarmid
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Neil Corcoran
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