

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Hugh MacDiarmid: a life in poetry and landscapes
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us on an illustrated  journey from the Borders to Shetland and south again, with Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at University of Glasgow.

All welcome.  Admission £6.

From the early 1920s, the poet Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve) was at the centre of the Scottish Literary Renaissance, along with his Hawick-born schoolteacher in Langholm, the composer F.G. Scott and Scott’s cousin, the artist, William Johnstone. 

These three men reconfigured the prospects of a new national cultural regeneration in all the arts and in political self-determination. Their work arose from the priorities of the people, as they saw them, opposed to commercial exploitation, and drawing on the landscapes and ethos of the Borders in their own creativity and imagination. 

This illustrated talk takes us through MacDiarmid’s life story with readings from the poet’s work and that of Alan Riach’s ‘biography-in-verse’, The MacDiarmid Memorandum (2023) and with images supplied by the artists Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol. 

We travel from the Borders to Shetland and back to the edge of the Borders once more, in Lanarkshire. The argument is that the energies generated in the 1920s are still a present fact in the 2020s in a continuing but unfulfilled vision requiring permanent reinvention and ‘Renaissance’.

Tuesday 17th March, 7.30pm, Ormiston Institute, Melrose.  All welcome. Admission £6.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/melrose/hugh-macdiarmid-a-life-in-poetry-and-landscapes/200029816192416
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Melrose
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: The Ormiston Institute, Melrose
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- **long**: -2.71974
- **full address**: The Ormiston Institute, Melrose, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: Melrose Literary Society (https://allevents.in/org/melrose-literary-society/22616689)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Ormiston Institute, Melrose, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Melrose Literary Society
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, fine-arts
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