MacDiarmid Centenary Issue

A new generation responds to that radical and controversial spirit – Hugh MacDiarmid. Distinguished contemporaries remember the man – his son, Michael and daughter-in-law Deirdre Chapman, Norman MacCaig, Hamish Henderson, Sorley MacLean, Edwin Morgan, George Mackay Brown, Roderick Watson, Pearse Hutchinson, Derick Thomson – and many others, and leading writers and critics of the (then) younger generation including James Robertson, George Gunn, and W N Herbert consider MacDiarmid's legacy.Robert Alan Jamieson argues for a formal Declaration of Cultural Independence.Women writers are represented by the winners of the MacDiarmid Centenary Prize (Mary Angus) and the Scots Language Society's MacDiarmid Tassie 1992 (Lydia Robb), as well as Sheena Blackhall, Ellie McDonald and Anne Shaw.