scotlit, 13 days ago Bide the storm ye canna hinder, Mindin’ through the strife, Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty Lichts the grey o’ life. —“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #poetry 1/4 https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
Bide the storm ye canna hinder, Mindin’ through the strife, Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty Lichts the grey o’ life.
—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #poetry 1/4 https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
scotlit, 13 days ago Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy. Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind. Deaf on the right? New voices from the Left In politics and art more clearly sound… —Helen Cruickshank, “On Being Eighty” #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poetry 2/4 https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-eighty/
Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy. Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind. Deaf on the right? New voices from the Left In politics and art more clearly sound…
—Helen Cruickshank, “On Being Eighty” #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poetry 2/4 https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-eighty/
scotlit, 13 days ago “Bide the storm ye canna hinder” Jenni Calder on Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975): poet, author, founder member of the Saltrie Society, Hon Sec of Scottish PEN, & linchpin of the 20th-century Scottish renaissance #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters 3/4 https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/helen-cruickshank-bide-the-storm-ye-canna-hinder/
“Bide the storm ye canna hinder”
Jenni Calder on Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975): poet, author, founder member of the Saltrie Society, Hon Sec of Scottish PEN, & linchpin of the 20th-century Scottish renaissance #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters 3/4 https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/helen-cruickshank-bide-the-storm-ye-canna-hinder/
scotlit, 13 days ago Helen Cruickshank Lecture Dr Candice Goucher’s lecture, given in 2021 for the Scottish PEN Writers for Peace Committee, celebrates the life, poetry & activism of Helen Cruickshank, & explores how the themes of her work resonate for writers today #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters 4/4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrjIZX3B6M
Helen Cruickshank Lecture
Dr Candice Goucher’s lecture, given in 2021 for the Scottish PEN Writers for Peace Committee, celebrates the life, poetry & activism of Helen Cruickshank, & explores how the themes of her work resonate for writers today #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters 4/4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrjIZX3B6M
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