St Mungo's Mirrorball

Mirrorball Showcase

Thu 6 October 2022

Wheelchair accessible

A portrait of poet Hugh MacDiarmid in oil paint.

Hugh MacDiarmid portrait by Robert Heriot Westwater. Photo credit: National Galleries of Scotland.

This year Scotland marks the centenary of one of its greatest – and still most controversial poets. Erupting from the pen of his creator C.M. Grieve in 1922, Hugh MacDiarmid continues to provoke strong responses.

St Mungo’s Mirrorball will be gathering at CCA to share our favourite MacDiarmid poems and listen to a talk from Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow and a leading MacDiarmid expert.