Margaret Tait: Poetry, Stories and Writings

Neely, S. (Ed.) (2012) Margaret Tait: Poetry, Stories and Writings. Carcanet Press Limited: Manchester. ISBN 9781847771599

Abstract

Margaret Tait (1918-1999) was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. In 'documentary', she wrote, real things 'lose their reality ... and there's no poetry in that. In poetry, something else happens.' If film, for Tait, was a poetic medium, her poems are works of craft and observation that are generous and independent in their vision of the world, poems that make seeing happen. Sarah Neely, Lecturer in Film at the University of Stirling, draws on Tait's three poetry collections, her book of short stories, her magazine articles and unpublished notebooks to make available for the first time a collection of the full range of Tait's writing. Her introduction discusses Tait as filmmaker and writer in the context of mid-twentieth-century Scottish culture, and a comprehensive list of bibliographic and film resources provides an indispensible guide for further exploration.

• Item Type: Edited Books
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Neely, Professor Sarah
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Limited
• ISBN: 9781847771599

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