Poems, stories and writings
Drawing upon a pioneering filmmaker's poetry collections, short stories, magazine articles, and unpublished notebooks, this collection contains the full range of Margaret Tait's writing. As it discusses Tait as filmmaker and writer in the context of mid-20th-century Scottish culture, this account offers valuable insights into her writing processes and how these might have translated into her film work. With poetry that is generous and independent in its vision of the world, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the crossovers between lit
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages) : illustrations
9781847773852, 9781847776617, 1847773850, 1847776612
855534432
Hooray, Hooray, Hoo Ray Ray RaySprung Sonnet; Ay, Ay, Ay, Dolores; from Subjects and Sequences (1960); Pomona; Bowery; Standing Stones of Stenness; Then, Oh Then, Oh Then; Edward Nairn, Poet; Kulgin the Helicopter; Alex; Allison; But why not try this method; A Poem for a Morning; Pavement Artist; from Short Poems on Blue Paper; Historical Sense; The Old Lady of Loth; Punishment; One World, One Sun; Epiphany; Northerner; Midwinter; You Heard What the Minister Said, Pet; 'The eyebright was for you'; Bushels; Mary, Queen of Scots; Secrets; from The Hen and the Bees (1960); Hen; Dogs; Family The Scale of ThingsLocklessness; For Using; Light; Responsiveness; Trust; Spring 1958; Remains that Have Been Tampered With; Queen of Fact and Story; Story-telling Queen; Sea-going King's Queen; The Queen and All the Children; A Queen in Prison; Belief; Other Gods, Other Ways; Loki Beside the Standing Stone; Thor; Freya; Baldar; By the Book; Sound of Children Sobbing; Face-kicking; Uncollected and Unpublished Poems; One is One; Studentessa (The Little Tourist in Rome); The Window Boxes; Seeing's Believing and Believing's Seeing; Horses; Word Song; That's Them off on Their Spring Forays Drawing in Pen and InkThe Sky of Your City; Why Did They Go?; The Raven Banner; Concha Orcadensis; This Now; Free for All; Flame; from a twenty-seven-page 'Examination into the meaning of fire'; Il Mago; Materfamilias; Me; In Olden Days; Winter Solstice; What is it that's wonderful about the photograph?; The Boats at Droman; Redefinition of a Lame Duck; Orquil Burn; Soon; Grove; SHORT STORIES; The Incomers; The Song Gatherer; Sixteen Frames per Second; WRITINGS ON FILM; Time; On Rossellini; Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress; Independence: Small Budget Production in Rome On Throwing a Film FestivalClose-up of Rose Street; Two-way Drift; Colour Poems 1974; Film-poem or Poem-film: A few notes about film and poetry from Margaret Tait; Video Poems for the 90s (working title); RESOURCES; Works by Margaret Tait; Selected Bibliography; Selected Filmography; Archives; Index of Poem Titles; Index of Poem First Lines