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Hailed by some as the most important Scottish poet since Burns,
Hamish Henderson lived an epic life against the backdrop of some of
the defining social, political and cultural battles - both national
and international - of the twentieth century. A soldier, academic,
folklorist, political activist, songwriter, translator and poet, he
was a seminal figure in the Scottish folk revival and literary
renaissance. His humanist legacy lives on in all of these spheres,
but it is perhaps through his poetry that we may experience, most
keenly, the 'method in his magic.' In every verse and lyric we
catch glimpses of a brilliant, complex and highly original mind,
whilst also developing a fuller understanding of Henderson's
lifelong mission to 'make poetry become people.' Published to
celebrate the centenary of the birth of Hamish Henderson, this
collected poems is the first since the poet's death and makes
available, for the first time, new material from the archive. The
book opens with Freedom Becomes People, first published in Chapman
42, and reproduces, in full, his Ballads of World War II and
Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica. This volume pushes at the
boundaries between high modernist poetics and popular folk song;
between the profound and profane; between works of individual and
collective endeavour and between the poet and his purpose.
This publication commemorates the 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival
Ceilidh and collects views and perspectives on the way the Folk
Revival has evolved over the past sixty years. 'Tis Sixty Years
Since: The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and the
Scottish Folk Revival -Sixty years ago, in 1951, the first
Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh at Oddfellows' Hall
kick-started the modern Scottish Folk Revival. It was presided over
by Hamish Henderson and recorded by Alan Lomax. Sixty years ago,
the School of Scottish Studies was founded at the University of
Edinburgh. The 10th Carrying Stream Festival in November 2011,
organised by Edinburgh Folk Club in cooperation with the School of
Scottish Studies and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland,
celebrated these anniversaries.
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