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Alan Riach

Reporter · GB

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  1. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Alan Riach

    These are some highlights on offer at the ‘other’ Edinburgh Book Festival (opens the original)

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    EDINBURGH! What did Burns call it? “Scotia’s darling seat”! Well, since the city’s long-echoing NO in the 2014 referendum, “seat” in this instance might mean rather than “highest summit of cultural attainment” (as in, “seat of learning”), its bottom-most part, or (good Scots word) “dowp”. But no, surely, the Edinburgh Festival is upon us! And culture like this surely can’t be “political”! Well, you can browse through interminable numbers of events or brochures and c

  2. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Alan Riach

    This Scottish literary giant's influence endures 125 years on (opens the original)

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    POETS and musicians will on Saturday gather at the Aberdeenshire homeplace of one of Scotland’s best-loved writers, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, to celebrate his enduring influence. The event is being hosted by the Friends of Grassic Gibbon and Arbuthnott Community Association, in collaboration with the Wee Gaitherin Poetry Festival, Stonehaven’s annual poetry festival. The word Arbuthnott arises from Scottish Gaelic, Obar Bhuadhnait, meaning “the mouth of the Buadhnat” (pronounced, Buthnot). It’s a sm

  3. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Alan Riach

    Introducing this year’s prizewinning McCash Scots language poems (opens the original)

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    HUGH MacDiarmid’s poem Gairmscoile – the word means School for Poets – begins like this: Deep i’ the herts o’ a’ men lurk scaut-heid Brides sometimes catch their wild een, scansin’ reid, Beekin’ abune the herts they thocht to lo’e And horror-stricken ken that i’ themselves A like beast stan’s, and lookin’ love thro’ and thro’ Meets the reid een wi’ een like seevun hells. ...Nearer the twa beasts draw, and, couplin’, brak The bubbles o’ twa sauls and the haill warld gangs black. It’s a shocking r

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