Front Row tonight. I'm talking to Kirsty Wark about my fantastic, unreliable subject, Christopher Murray Grieve (aka Hugh MacDiarmid), with my wonderful, reliable narrator Deirdre Grieve (MacDiarmid's daughter-in-law, aged 90, his closest observer).
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Sharp-as-a-knife, rapid despatch (less than 24 hours after ordering)... Ivor Cutler's Selected Poems, edited by @billherbert and available from Hoorgi House Publishing hoorgihouse.link 🔪🍴💙
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Octopuses 'likely to take over world' say Oxford University experts ift.tt/zHr12A6
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Bill Herbert retweeted
No furniture (or cutlery) was harmed in the making of this video - although that cutlery box has clearly had a hard time of it over the years.
#IvorCutler #SelectedPoems #HoorgiHouse
#IvorCutler #SelectedPoems #HoorgiHouse
Ridiculously contrived pseudo-advertisement for the new Selected Poems of Ivor Cutler! Available now!!
#IvorCutler #SelectedPoems #HoorgiHouse
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Ridiculously contrived pseudo-advertisement for the new Selected Poems of Ivor Cutler! Available now!!
#IvorCutler #SelectedPoems #HoorgiHouse
#IvorCutler #SelectedPoems #HoorgiHouse
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Ridiculously contrived pseudo-advertisement for the new Selected Poems of Ivor Cutler! Available now!!
#IvorCutler #SelectedPoems #HoorgiHouse
#IvorCutler #SelectedPoems #HoorgiHouse
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Bill Herbert retweeted
My father had a vinyl of MacDiarmid reading his epic poem - A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. It was and still is formidable. That's why I'll be going along to this event. Come and join. See you there.
Saturday 21st Nov 2026
9:30am
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Saturday 21st Nov 2026
9:30am
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Kalimera, fellow despairers.
Released 50 years ago today 🌹
"New Rose", the first single by The Damned
The Damned - New Rose (Official HD video
#punk #punks #punkrock #newrose #thedamned #50years #punkrockhistory #otd
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Bill Herbert retweeted
Apparently it's possible to order a copy of my pamphlet from Amazon and it will arrive next April! 😱 Alternatively, you can get one in a day or two from the very friendly & efficient publisher @DiodeBlue ... bluediode.co.uk/shop....
#PrimeMembers 💙
#PrimeMembers 💙
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Uncle Zbiggie on aftermaths and the small but exponentially-expanding matter of unforeseen consequences.
#ZbigniewHerbert
#ZbigniewHerbert
Prometheus laughs quietly. Now it is the only way of expressing his disagreement with the world.
- Zbigniew Herbert, ""Old Prometheus"
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Lovely bit of research into two parallel lives brought together by a school register.
It demonstrates how much we desire coincidence to be meaningful, in that these two women share an unusual name but have no deeper connection.
And yet, and yet, our longing for story persists.
It demonstrates how much we desire coincidence to be meaningful, in that these two women share an unusual name but have no deeper connection.
And yet, and yet, our longing for story persists.
Our latest blog post started as an investigation into a curious coincidence - two girls in a school admission register listed one after the other with exactly the same name. Our volunteer Johanna looks into the lives of two girls called Alexina Simpson.
dundeecityarchives.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/see…
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Two copies of this left -- plus a large quantity of newly-arrived pink padded envelopes... DM for clashing packaging & signed innards✍️ 🩷💥💌
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Here’s your #TwoWordGestalt for today: Walnut Stylites (now with image).
Why’s it not ‘Saint Walnut Stylites’? Well, a) that’s three words; and b) it’s a walnut.
One more time: Walnut Stylites.
Why’s it not ‘Saint Walnut Stylites’? Well, a) that’s three words; and b) it’s a walnut.
One more time: Walnut Stylites.
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Episode 2 (of 2) of this charmering series by #IvorCutler happens to contain several of the poems we selected from ‘A Wet Handle’ for his Selected Poems - forthcoming from #HoorgiHouse!
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…
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Instant Stoned Youth Nostalgia! Life was, is, and remains, a #PerpetualBiscuitReference…
Instant childhood nostalgia! Although, I prefer the Half Man Half Biscuit version:
"Time flies by when you're a driver of a train,
Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine,
I get high when I'm a pilot of a plane,
Touching down in Camberwick, I'm stoned out of my brain."
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Translated by #HughMacDiarmid (though perhaps that exaggerates his involvement, who knows?) and Elspeth Harley Schubert in 1963, possibly ‘Between the end of the “Chatterley” ban/And The Beatles’ first LP.’
#Aniara
#Aniara
One science fiction film has gone to philosophical depths in asking what the human race would do if it knew it was going to die out.
Aniara is the story of a space vessel with 100s on board, bound for colonies on Mars, that through a collision with debris is redirected onto an o deep space.
It becomes a "generation ship" but it is headed to oblivion. It asks what we survive for.
Deeply haunting, the Swedish Danish film was based on a 1956 epic poem by Harry Martinson.
The film had a modest budget of €1.9 million and was almost entirely state funded, by Sweden, Denmark and local funds.
It's brave for countries to use state funds on sci-fi.
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The following minute, a large, momentarily-unattended dog dashed in and rolled about on its back in sheer delight before rushing behind the bar, presumably to pull pints for the early evening crowd.
Which only enhanced the deep joy of the Dreamtime snug.
#StarAndGarter #Dundee
Which only enhanced the deep joy of the Dreamtime snug.
#StarAndGarter #Dundee
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‘Lookin through a glass pomegranate…’
#TheBeatles #ΤαΣκαθάρια
(I was looking for a Lennon-esque pun in Greek, but then realised that Ska was already built in.)
#TheBeatles #ΤαΣκαθάρια
(I was looking for a Lennon-esque pun in Greek, but then realised that Ska was already built in.)
Glass pomegranate. Greek, Hellenistic period, 2nd c.BC. Phoenix Ancient Art.
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