Three excerpts from Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”—new videos with Christie Williamson

We have now added Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 3. Or, to be more precise, we discuss three passages from that long poem. Joining Anna and Al in discussing these passages is Christie Williamson, Scottish poet and long-time ModPo’er.

• read three passages from MacDiarmid’s modernist epic in Scots, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”: LINK TO TEXT
• listen to Hugh MacDiarmid perform these passages: LINK TO AUDIO
• watch a discussion (with Scottish poet Christie Williamson) on “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”: LINK TO VIDEO