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The Seven Poets Generation
2009
Overview
Shortly after the 1979 referendum when Scotland seemed to have lost its chance for devolution, Alexander Moffat painted a generation of Scottish poets who, he thought, shared ‘a passionate concern about Scottish history and culture [and] played the leading role, both in their verse and prose, in shaping the artistic conscience of this country’. He produced a series of individual portraits, based on sketches of the poets whom he travelled widely to see in their own homes. The group portrait,Poets’ Pub, was an attempt to ‘evoke the romance of Edinburgh’s bohemian life of the late 1950s and early 1960s’,
