The Revolutionary Art of the Future

A selection from 300 recently discovered poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, who 25 years after his death is still a dissenting voice, are presented in this collection. The power of derisive laughter and the poetic imagination to combat ignorance, prejudice, and stupidity are celebrated by MacDiarmid in these provocative poems on sexuality and marriage. Many of the poems satirize the hypocrisy of the church and bourgeois complacency and powerfully indict the brutality of imperialism and its consequences for war. Discovered by John Manson in the archives of the National Library of Scotland, this is the first time many of these poems have appeared in print.

Hugh MacDiarmid is the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve. He is considered the father of the Scottish literary renaissance.

Introduction	ix
The Secret Voice	1	(1)
Mary Reflects	2	(1)
The Lilypond	3	(1)
Mother	4	(1)
My Follies Are My Studies	5	(1)
To Christine	6	(1)
If Christ Rose Today	7	(1)
It's a Fine Thing	8	(1)
Everything in Edinburgh	9	(1)
Bourgeois Poetry	10	(1)
A Man's a Man	11	(1)
Holiday Plan	12	(1)
On an Opponent of Scots Literature	13	(2)
My Ambition	15	(1)
The Whole Keyboard	16	(1)
Candlesmas	17	(1)
from The Dark Whirling Dun	18	(3)
The Mouse that Bit the Cat	21	(1)
Ex Nihil	22	(1)
Working at Last	23	(1)
The Logic of Contradiction	24	(1)
I Thank God Most	25	(1)
Of the Cheka's Horrors	26	(1)
Even Death Has a Home-Life	27	(1)
Bedrock	28	(1)
Vementry	29	(2)
When I Go to the Well	31	(1)
A Married Man	32	(1)
Against Untempered Light	33	(1)
A Shetland Cottage	34	(2)
Like a Particle of Bone	36	(1)
Wart-Hogs	37	(1)
All the Welsh Writers in Great Britain Today	38	(1)
The War Memorial	39	(2)
While Goering Slept	41	(1)
On the Imminent Destruction of London, June 1940	42	(2)
The Fall of France	44	(1)
The German Bombers	45	(1)
Ann Five Minutes' Silence	46	(3)
Culloden	49	(1)
Surely It Were Better	50	(1)
A Pair of Fulmar Petrels	51	(1)
from The Monarch of the Glen	52	(2)
The Doctor and the Minister	54	(1)
Here, Dust Must Prevail	55	(1)
I Have Succeeded	56	(1)
I Know That I Was Happy Then	57	(1)
River-Side	58	(1)
You Do Not Cease To Be Yourself	59	(1)
Natural Description	60	(1)
Bairns Arena Frightened	61	(1)
Falkland Chapel	62	(1)
The Outlaw	63	(1)
Finding a Name	64	(1)
No Flowers at Your Grave	65	(1)
The Freer Flame	66	(1)
On Abandoning a Controversy	67	(1)
Aberfan and Viet-Nam	68	(2)
Westminster Abbey	70	(1)
Ancestors	71	(1)
Whisky Soft as a Candle's Flame	72	(1)
The Last of the Lights	73	(1)
Bramble Spray in the Autumn Woods	74	(1)
We Need More Men Like Him	75	(2)
Acknowledgements	77

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