Barry Graham's Blog - Remembering Tom Leonard - December 22, 2018 02:28

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Remembering Tom Leonard

Tom Leonard died yesterday, the Winter Solstice. It’s impossible to discuss him without using superlatives; he was one of the greatest Scottish poets of the last hundred years, and one of the most important political thinkers, and his impact on the language is equalled only by that of Fergusson, Burns and MacDiarmid.

Although I lived a few minutes walk from his place in Glasgow’s West End in the mid-1980s, I never met him during that time, though I was as affected by his work as every ot...

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