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The correspondence between Henderson and MacDiarmid forms the centrepiece of the book which includes Henderson's letters to the \"Scotsman\" and the \"Daily Worker\" on the relevant subjects of the day. There are contributions from and to correspondents such as Jeannie Robertson and a host of others on the political and folk scene as the chronologically-presented letters move through the debates and achievements of the post-war period. The book provides a critical overview of the life and work of Hamish Henderson by the editor, Alec Finlay. A treasure-house of letters, private thoughts and literary conflicts, this impressive volume provides a fascinating record of events, people and cultural history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49516594266385,"sku":"GOR002759502","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49620167590161,"sku":"GOR004482612","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0748661913.jpg?v=1751328947"},{"product_id":"hamish-henderson-collected-poems-and-songs-book-hamish-henderson-9781902141015","title":"Hamish Henderson Collected Poems and Songs","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49546823270673,"sku":"GOR007946327","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1902141016.jpg?v=1751412386"},{"product_id":"alias-macalias-book-hamish-henderson-9781904598213","title":"Alias MacAlias","description":"He was well-known as a songwriter and poet (his collection Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1949) and as a pioneer in the field of Scottish folk studies and song collecting. Henderson was also a highly original translator of poetry - from Gaelic, French, German, Latin and Greek - much of it into Scots, and also of the work of the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, whose Prison Letters he published in English in 1974. This book brings together around sixty pieces spanning fifty years - essays, articles, reviews and reminiscences - which demonstrate the enormous diversity of his interests. There are essays on literature (Hugh MacDiarmid and Lorca), politics (post-war Germany, the Clearances), and, of course, on the folk song tradition. Alias MacAlias was first published by Polygon in 1992. Birlinn will publish a major biography of Hamish Henderson by Timothy Neat in 2005.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49551880585489,"sku":"GOR004056567","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1904598218.jpg?v=1751437316"},{"product_id":"alias-mcalias-book-hamish-henderson-9780748660421","title":"Alias McAlias","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575353712913,"sku":"GOR002661180","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51277506806033,"sku":"GOR010213837","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0748660429.jpg?v=1751361208"},{"product_id":"hamish-henderson-book-hamish-henderson-9781846975530","title":"Hamish Henderson","description":"Hailed by some as the most important Scottish poet since Burns, Hamish Henderson lived an epic life against the backdrop of some of the defining social, political and cultural battles - both national and international - of the twentieth century. A soldier, academic, folklorist, political activist, songwriter, translator and poet, he was a seminal figure in the Scottish folk revival and literary renaissance. His humanist legacy lives on in all of these spheres, but it is perhaps through his poetry that we may experience, most keenly, the 'method in his magic.' In every verse and lyric we catch glimpses of a brilliant, complex and highly original mind, whilst also developing a fuller understanding of Henderson's lifelong mission to 'make poetry become people.'Published to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Hamish Henderson, this collected poems is the first since the poet's death and makes available, for the first time, new material from the archive. The book opens with Freedom Becomes People, first published in Chapman 42, and reproduces, in full, his Ballads of World War II and Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica. 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