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In-Person Event

Do We Need A New Canon?

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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

10:00 am

end

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

11:00 am
location

Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court, Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Join Scotland Street Press author Alan Riach at Edinburgh International Book Festival, alongside Gerard Carruthers and Sara Sheridan, as he examines Hugh MacDiarmid’s role within the Scottish canon.

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Do we need a new Scottish canon?

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From Robert Louis Stevenson to Jackie Kay, Scotland has long been a beacon for great writing. Gerard Carruthers and Alan Riach, two of the country’s best-respected literature scholars, are joined by writer and activist Sara Sheridan, bestselling author of The Fair Botanists, to discuss some of the nation’s greatest figures and their most influential texts – and who is missing from what we consider to be ‘canon’. Carruthers will be drawing on Scottish Stories, a new collection he edited, while Riach focuses on the influence of Hugh MacDiarmid as well as his new book Scottish Literature: An Introduction.

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