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| Nationality - Scottish |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 1892
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Date of death - 1978 |
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Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher M. Grieve), born 1892, has close associations with Angus. In 1914 he was a reporter on the Forfar Review, "chroniclin' the toon's sma' beer", and from 1921-1929 he spent his most productive years in Montrose, where he stayed at 16 Links Avenue. (A plaque in Review Close commemorates his time with the Montrose Review.)
In this period he produced issues of Northern Numbers and Scottish Chapbook, and the verse collections Annals of the Five Senses, Sangschaw and Penny Wheep, but most importantly the long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, which was conceived on a weekend at the Ogilvie Arms Hotel in Glen Clova. This poem was the cornerstone of the Scottish Literary Renaissance, and for a time Montrose was the unlikely epicentre of the movement.
In his years in Montrose MacDiarmid was also a Town Councillor and Justice of the Peace. He left Montrose in 1929.
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