edited by Eberhard Bort (University of Edinburgh) for
Grace Note Publications, 2015.

Anent Hamish Henderson

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Eberhard Bort: Anent Hamish Henderson – Introduction

I Essays

(i) Reminiscences

Sheena Wellington: Hamish Henderson – Inspiration

Dolina Maclennan: Hamish Henderson – Ma Big Pal

(ii) Poetry

Lesley Duncan: Charles Hamilton Sorley and Hamish Henderson – Two Voices from the Battlefield

John Lucas: No Gods and Precious Few Heroes

Richie McCaffery: 'Mak siccar' – A Reading and Critical Commentary of Hamish Henderson's Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica

(iii) Folk-Song

Ewan McVicar: I Heard Scotland Singing

Alison McMorland & Geordie McIntyre: In Tune with the 'Underground of Songs'

Raymond Ross: Visions and Voices: The Flyting of Hamish Henderson and Hugh MacDiarmid

Margaret Bennett: Hamish Henderson and Martyn Bennett – Conversations and Collaborations

(iv) Culture and Politics

Eberhard Bort: 'The Shamrock and the Thistle' – Hamish Henderson's Ireland

Ray Burnett: Viva la Gillie More – Hamish Henderson, Gramsci and Subaltern Scotland

Eberhard Bort: Hamish and Madiba – Hamish Henderson, Nelson Mandela, and the Fight against Apartheid in South Africa

II Poems

Mario Relich: Interrogations

David Daiches: Alang wi' Hamish

Donald Smith: Man and Boy

Donald Meek: Seumas MacEanraig

George Gunn: The Bones of Scotland

William Hershaw: Abhainn

Keith Armstrong Stella of Rose Street & The Divided Self

III Interviews

Geordie McIntyre: Risurgimento! – An Interview with Hamish Henderson

Andrew Means: Scottish Studies – A Melody Maker Interview with Hamish Henderson

Jennie Renton: 'Opening Up the Lore of the Travelling People' – A Textualities Interview with Hamish Henderson

Colin Nicholson: 'For Our Own and the Others' – Hamish Henderson


Archie Fisher: 'Ceilidh is an Excellent Word' – A Travelling Folk Interview with Hamish Henderson


Margaret Bennett: Howard Glasser and Hamish Henderson: Creative Collaboration and kinship



Best wishes, Thomas.