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Poems, Stories and Writings 2/e

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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 theres 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University of Stirling, draws on Taits three poetry collections, her book of short stories, her magazine articles and unpublished notebooks to make available for the first time a collection of the full range of Taits writing.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.

Margaret Tait (1918-1999) was born in Orkney. After qualifying in Medicine from Edinburgh University in 1941, she joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in India, Sri Lanka and Malaya, before returning to Orkney in 1946. She studied filmmaking in Rome from 1950-52, at the height of Neorealism. Returning to the UK, Tait established her own film company, Ancona films, working first in Edinburgh before returning to her native Orkney where she continued to make films until her death in 1999.

• The first gathering of work by the pioneering filmmaker, writer and poet Margaret Tait reissued as a Carcanet Classic

• Presents Tait’s imaginative and intensely visual poetry, short stories and writings

• Includes a foreword by the award-winning Scottish novelist Ali Smith, an avid fan of Tait’s work; she wrote of Tait: ‘a remarkable critical forerunner, a unique and underrated filmmaker, there’s nobody like her

• Tait’s poems are works of craft and observation that reveal the world around us, an approach she also took with filmmaking (which she considered a poetic medium)

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