Gerda Stevenson

And McDermott's kind of awkwardness, cussedness within the whole thing, but which nonetheless brings up what is sometimes seen as a sort of contradiction in the Scots' nature, but really gives it tremendous sort of descriptive power in that poem.

Anyway, I'm not fit to sort of eulogize on it, but there is one hell of a lineup going on, I'm going anyway, There's Gerda Stevenson, the poet, Murray Pittock.

There's all sorts of people going to be at this and Sally Magnusson seems to be chairing it.

So it's on on Saturday, the 21st of November in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.