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The MacDiarmid Memorandum Rima Buaini alert to its own distinctAlan Riachs The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category defying scope; blending biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Riachs poems begin with MacDiarmids childhood in Langholm and his first attempts to navigate the Scottish landscape. We travel from the Borders to Shetland, from Edinburgh to rural Lanarkshire. The poems map a