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Alexander Linklater is a journalist and editor: formerly editor of the Glasgow Herald, arts editor at the London Evening Standard, deputy editor of Prospect magazine and books editor at the Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Stockholm. He has made literary programmes for BBC4 and founded the BBC National Short Story Award. His work on Hugh MacDiarmid began in the early 1990s in the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University, ad his biography of Christopher Murray Grieve is forthcoming from William Collins. ...more

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Alexander Linklater's Blog

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Trekking in the South Tirol: the walk of life

Walking amid Italy’s South Tirol with friends gives Alexander Linklater a huge helping of camaraderie and kaiserschmarrn

“Nur die harten kommen in den garten” (only tough guys get into the garden). With this Teutonic exhortation our guide, Richard Oberkalmsteiner, leads us – a group of “soft Scottish mens” – up into the mountains of the South Tirol for a week-long trek around the Sarntal (or Sarent

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Alexander Linklater’s books

Average rating: 3.77 · 13 ratings · 2 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Return of Geopolitics by Kurt Almqvist (Editor), Alexander Linklater (Editor), Andrew MacKenzie (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War: How Conflict Shaped Our Societies by Alexey Arbatov, Alexander Linklater (Editor), Alexey Arbatov (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Politik och ideologier by Kurt Almqvist (Editor), Alexander Linklater (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antagonist: The Life Behind Hugh MacDiarmid 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ayont the Thistle: A gallimaufry of poetry and prose to mark the centenary (1926 - 2026) of Hugh MacDiarmid's 'A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle' by Jim Mackintosh (Editor), Alan Riach (Editor), James Robertson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2026	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“MacDiarmid's words were composed, to a startling degree, out of words that had, indeed, been written before. A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle does not go as far as the copy-and-paste collages of his later work in English, but his great Scots poem is nevertheless made up of lines that are routinely borrowed or extracted, quoted or adapted, compiled or found or lifted: from Burns, Child, Wordsworth, Nietzsche, Shestov, Blok, Dostoevsky, H.G. Wells, A.R. Orage, Sachervell Sitwell...”
― Alexander Linklater, Ayont the Thistle: A gallimaufry of poetry and prose to mark the centenary (1926 - 2026) of Hugh MacDiarmid's 'A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle'

tags: a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle, hugh-macdiarmid, scots-language

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