Male : Poet. Nationalist & Marxist. Leader of the Scottish literary renaissance. Married Margaret Skinner in 1918 (divorced 1932) & Valda Trevlyn in 1934

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Langholm, Dumfries

Date of Birth : 1892 Date of Death : 1978 Age : 86

Pseudonyms : Christopher Murray Grieve

Other Work : Journalist & Editor. One of the founders of the Scottish National Party

Education : Langholm Academy & University of Edinburgh

1920-1925
(Ed) Northern Numbers, Being Representative Selections from Certain Living Scottish Poets
(1920-1) - 2 vols
Annals of the Five Sense (1923 C M Grieve) (1930 Porpoise Press, Edinburgh)
Sangshaw : Poems (1925 Blackwood, Edinburgh) - by Hugh M'Diarmid

1926-1930
Penny Wheep (1926 Blackwood)
(Ed) Robert Burns 1759-1796 (1926)
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926 Blackwood)
Albyn, or Scotland and the Future (1926 Kegan Paul) - by C M Grieve
Contemporary Scottish Studies (1926 Leonard Parsons) - by C M Grieve
Contemporary Scottish Studies : First Series (1926 Leonard Parsons)
Albyn, or Scotland and the Future (1927 Kegan Paul) - by C M Grieve
The Present Condition of Scottish Music (1927 C M Grieve)
The Lucky Bag (1927 Porpoise Press, Edinburgh) - 8pp
The Present Condition of Scottish Arts and Affairs (1928 PEN Club)
The Scottish National Association of April Fools (1928 Aberdeen UP)
Scotland in 1980 (1929)
To Circumjack Cencrastus, or The Curly Snake (1930 Blackwood)
(Trans) Ramon Maria de Tenreiro : The Handmaid of the Lord (1930)

1931-1935
First Hymn to Lenin & Other Poems (1931 Unicorn Press)
(Ed) Living Scottish poets (1931)
Warning Democracy (1931)
O Wha's Been here Afore Me, Lass (1931 Blue Moon, London) - folded card. 100 signed
Second Hymn to Lenin (1932 Valda Trevlyn, Thakenham) (1935 Nott)
Scots Unbound & other Poems (1932 Eneas Mackay, Stirling) - Ltd Ed 350
Tarras (1932 Free Man, Edinburgh)
Stony Limits & Other Poems (1934 Gollancz)
Selected Poems (1934 Macmillan)
At the Sign of the Thistle : A Collection of Essays (1934 Nott)
Five Bits of Miller (1935 PP by the Author)
Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn (1934 Jarrolds) - with Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Scotland in 1980 (1935 PP by the Author)
(Trans) Alexander MacDonald : The Birlinn of Clanranald (1935)

1936-1940
Scottish Eccentrics (1936 Routledge)
Charles Doughty and the Need for Heroic Poetry (1936 St Andrews)
Scotland and the Question of a Popular front Against Fascism and War (1938)
Direadh (1938 Voices of Scotland, Dunfermline)
The Islands of Scotland : Hebrides, Orkneys & Shetlands (1939 Batsford)
(Ed) The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (1940)

1941-1945
(Ed) Auntran Ballads : An Outwale o Verses by Douglas Young (1943)
Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn (1943 Caledonian Press)
Lucky Poet: A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas (1943 Methuen) - autobiography
Selected Poems (1944 Wm MacLellan, Glasgow)

1946-1950
Speaking for Scotland : Selected Poems (1946 Contemporary Poets)
Poems of the East-West Synthesis (1946 Caledonian Press)
A Kist of Whistles : New Poems (1947 MacLellan)
(Ed) William Soutar : Collected Poems (1948)
(Ed) Robert Burns : Poems (1949)
(Ed) Poetry Scotland 4 (1949) - with Maurice Lindsay
(Ed) Scottish Arts and Letters : 5th Miscellany (1950)

1951-1960
Cunninghame Graham : A Centenary Study (1952 Caledonian Press, Glasgow)
The Politics and Poetry of MacDiarmid (1952)
(Ed) Selections from the Poems of William Dunbar (1952)
Selected Poems (1954) - Edited by Oliver Brown
In Memoriam James Joyce (1955 MacLellan, London) - John Duncan Fergusson
Francis George Scott : An Essay on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday (1955 M Macdonald, Edinburgh)
(Ed) Selected Poems of William Dunbar (1955)
Stony Limits and Scots Unbound & Other Poems (1956 Edinburgh)
The Battle Continues (1957 Castle Wynd)
Three Hymns to Lenin (1957 Castle Wynd, Edinburgh)
Burns Today and Tomorrow (1959 Castle Wynd)

1961-1965
The Kind of Poetry I Want (1961 Duval, Edinburgh)
David Hume, Scotland's Greatest Son (1962 Paperback Bookshop, Glasgow)
(Ed) Love Songs by Robert Burns (1962)
The Man of (Almost) Independent Means (1962 Giles Gordon, Edinburgh) - 12pp
When the Rat Race is Over : An Essay in Honour of the 50th Birthday of John Gawsworth (1962)
MacDiarmid on Hume (1962)
Bracken Hills in Autumn (1962 C H Hamilton)
The Blaward and the Skelly (1962)
The Ugly Birds Without Wings (1962 Allan Donaldson)
Collected Poems (1962 Macmillan NY) (1962 Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh)
[suppressed by the Author]
Poems in Scots (1963 Duncan Glen Poetry Leaflet 2)
Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone (1963)
(Trans) Harry Martinson : Aniara - A Review of Man in Time and Space (1963)
- with Elsapeth Harley Schubert
Sydney Godsir Smith (1963 Colin H Hamilton, Edinburgh) - 135 numbered
Two Poems : The Terrible Crystal, A Vision of Scotland (1964 Drumalban)
The Ministry of Water : Two Poems (1964)
Six Vituperative Verses (1964)
Poet at Play and Other Poems : Being a Selection of Mainly Vituperative Verses (1965)
The Fire of the Spirit : Two Poems (1965 Duncan Glen, Glasgow) - Ltd Ed 350

1966-1970
Whuculls (1966)
The Company I've Kept : Essays in Autobiography (1966 Hutchinson)
On a Raised Beach (1967)
A Lap of Honour (1967 MacGibbon & Kee)
Early Lyrics Recently Discovered among Letters to His Schoolmaster and Friend, George Ogilvie
(1968 Akros, Preston) - edited by J K Annand - 350
The Uncanny Scot : A Selection of Prose (1968) - Edited by Kenneth Buthlay
Selected Essays (1969) - Edited by Duncan Glen
A Clyack Sheaf (1969)
More Collected Poems (1970 Granada 25/-)
Selected Poems (1970 Akros, Preston) - Edited by David Craig & Mohn Manson
(Ed) Henryson (1970)

1971-1975
The MacDiarmid Anthology : Poems in Scots and English (1972)
A Political Speech (1972 Reprographia, Edinburgh) - 23 ? signed & numbered
Song of the Seraphim (1972 Covent Garden Press & Inca Books) - Ltd Ed 600
Sydney Goodsir Smith (1972 Colin H Hamilton, Edinburgh) - 135 Numbered
Song of the Seraphim (1973)
(Trans) Berthold Brecht : The Threepenny Opera (1973)
On Metaphysics and Poetry (1974) - Edited by Walter Perrie
Direadh I, II and III (1974 Kulgin Duval & Colin H Hamilton) - 200 numbered & signed

After 1976
John Knox (1976) - with Campbell Maclean & Anthony Ross
Selected Lyrics (1977 Duval & Hamilton) - Ltd Ed 135
The Complete Poems (1978) - 2 vols. Edited by M Grieve & W R Aitken
THE SOCIALIST POEMS (1978) - EDITED BY T S LAW & T BERWICK
The Thistle Rises : An Anthology of Poetry & Prose by Macdiarmid (1984 Hamish Hamilton)
The Reolutionary Art of the Future : Rediscovered Poems (2004 Carcanet £6.95) - Edited by John Manson

READING
Arthur Leslie : The Politics and Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid (1952)
(Eds) K D Duval & S G Smith : Hugh MacDiarmid - A Festschrift
(1962 Duval, Edinburgh) - with checklist
Duncan Glen : Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance (1964)
Iain Crichton Smith : The Golden Lyric - An Essay on the Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid
(1967 Akros, Preston)
(Ed) Duncan Glen : Hugh MacDiarmid - A Critical Survey (1972 Scottish Academic)
Gordon Wright : Hugh MacDiarmid - An Illustrated Biography of Christopher Murray Grieve (1977)
(Eds) P H Scott & A C Davis : The Age of MacDiarmid (1980 Mainstream)
Alan Bold : MacDiarmid the Terrible Crystal (1983 Routledge)
Peter McCarey : Hugh MacDiarmid and the Russians (1987)