: Hugh MacDiarmid

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Introduction and linking commentary by Kenneth Buthlay

Poems in Scots read by Kenneth Buthlay, Sandy Rose, and Eleanor Aitken

Poems in English read by Edwin Morgan

1 Introduction 0:42

2 Cattle Show 0:30

3 Introduction continued 4:34

4 Empty Vessel 0:24

5 The Bonnie Broukit Bairn 0:27

6 The Innumerable Christ 0:48

7 Scunner 0:28

8 Crowdieknowe 0:38

9 Somerault 0:23

10 The Watergaw 0:37

11 The Eemis Stane 0:30

12 Sea-Serpent 3:40

13 Gairmscoile 5:00

14 Introduction to ‘A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle’ 5:02

15 Ten Excerpts from ‘A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle’ 20:58

16 Introduction to next poem group 3:52

17 North of the Tweed 3:56

18 An Apprentice Angel 1:16

19 Milk-Wort and Bog-Cotton 0:54

20 Water of Life 5:23

running time of this CD 60:07

Introduction and linking commentary by Kenneth Buthlay

Poems in Scots read by Kenneth Buthlay, Sandy Rose, and Eleanor Aitken

Poems in English read by Edwin Morgan

1 Excelsior 3:31

2 Prayer for a Second Flood 1:41

3 The Seamless Garment 5:10

4 Harry Semen 4:42

5 Second Hymn to Lenin 7:49

6 Tarras 3:34

7 Water Music (Part 1) 2:34

8 Introduction to later poems 4:49

9 Stony Limits 4:41

10 Dytiscus 0:41

11 The Glen of Silence 0:57

12 Crystals Like Blood 1:21

13 To a Friend and Fellow Poet 2:04

14 In the Fall 4:51

15 The Caledonian Antisysygy 0:59

running time of this CD 49:33