Resources Resources Filter: View all AudioCorrespondenceEssayJournalismOtherPoetryProgramme Notes Year published: Essay Michael Romer: “Poetry in Blue Black Permanent” Originally published in Cencrastus2006 Essay Sarah Neely: “‘Ploughing a lonely furrow’- Margaret Tait and ‘professional’ filmmaking practices in 1950s Scotland” Originally published in Movies on Home Ground2009 Essay Sarah Neely: “The bits of ourselves we leave behind: an essay in fragments” Originally published in MAP Magazine2016 Other Sarah Neely: Margaret Tait Resources Originally published in Between Categories: Margaret Tait: Poetry, Portraits, Sound and Place2016 Journalism Sarah Neely: “Archivos de la filmoteca: Margaret Tait y el ‘Poeta en Nueva York’ de Lorca” Originally published in Contraluz2015 Journalism Robert Shure: “The Long Light Days of Margaret Tait” Originally published in Umbrella1972 Programme Notes Murray Grigor: Margaret Tait at EIFF 1970 Originally published in the Edinburgh International Film Festival 1970 programme brochure1970 Journalism Tamara Krikorian: “On the Mountain and Land Makar: Landscape and Townscape in Margaret Tait’s Work” Originally published in Undercut1983 Essay Alex Pirie: “‘Margaret Tait Film Maker 1918-1999: Indications Influence Outcomes” Originally published in Poem Film Film Poem2000 Poetry Gerda Stevenson: ‘Orquil Burn (after a film by Margaret Tait)’ Commissioned by Alchemy Film & Arts2019 Audio, Poetry Margaret Tait reading from The Hen and the Bees (1960) Digitised by Sarah Neely2011 Audio, Poetry Margaret Tait reading from Origins and Elements (1959) Digitised by Sarah Neely2011 Audio, Poetry Margaret Tait reading from Subjects and Sequences (1960) Digitised by Sarah Neely2011 Programme Notes Margaret Tait: “Desperately Seeking Cinema” Originally published in GFT Brochure (May – October 1988)1988 Journalism Margaret Tait: “Close-up of Rose Street” Originally published in Scotland's Magazine1957 Journalism Margaret Tait: “The Day I Bathed in the Roman Baths” Originally published in Edinburgh Evening News1961 Essay Michael Romer: “Malcolm Lowry’s Influence on Orcadian Filmmaker Margaret Tait” Originally published in The Firminist2011 Essay Ian Goode: “Scottish cinema and Scottish imaginings: ‘Blue Black Permanent’ and ‘Stella Does Tricks'” Originally published in Screen2005 Essay Sarah Neely & Alan Riach: “Demons in the Machine: Experimental Film, Poetry and Modernism in Twentieth-Century Scotland” Originally published in New Scottish Cinema2009 Journalism Mike Leggett: “Margaret Tait at the London Film-Makers Co-op” Originally published in Time Out1980 Journalism Murray Grigor: “Obituary: Margaret Tait” Originally published in The Independent1999 Programme Notes Margaret Tait at EIFF 2004 Originally published in the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004 programme brochure2004 Essay Richard Demarco on Margaret Tait Originally published as part of Interim Edition: The Margaret Tait Poetry Archive2018 Essay Joss Winn: “Calypso” Originally published as 'Preserving the Handpainted Films of Margaret Tait'2002 Journalism Gerda Stevenson: “The late Margaret Tait, film-maker — an appreciation” Originally published in The Orcadian1999 Poetry Aonghas MacNeacail: ‘Primula Scotica at Yesnaby’ Originally published in The Orcadian1999 Poetry Alan Riach: ‘Tait’s MacDiarmid’ Originally published in Homecoming: New Poems 2001-20092009 Journalism David Curtis: “Britain’s Oldest Experimentalist… Margaret Tait” Originally published in Vertigo1999 Other Responses to Blue Black Permanent Notes from the screening of Blue Black Permanent on 21 October 2001 at The Lumière2001 Correspondence Mike Leggett: “The Autonomous Film-maker: Margaret Tait: Films and Poems” Courtesy of Mike Leggett1977 Journalism Peter Todd: “The Margaret Tait Project” Originally published in The Media Education Journal2003 Journalism Peter Todd: “Remote Lives?” Originally published in Vertigo2004 Journalism Peter Todd: “Focus On: Margaret Tait” Originally published in 16+ Source Guide: Experimental Film2004 Journalism Nick Roddick: ‘Tait of Grace’ Originally published in Sight & Sound2015 Journalism Annabel Nicolson, Peter Todd, Ute Aurand, Sarah Wood: “A Deeper Knowledge than Wisdom” Originally published in Vertigo2004 Journalism Gareth Evans: ‘Tait Modern’ Originally published in Vertigo2007 Essay So Mayer on Margaret Tait Originally published in POST2014 Other So Mayer introduces Blue Black Permanent Introduction to Blue Black Permanent (1992), screened at the BFI, London, 11 November 20182018 Essay Sarah Neely: “Stalking the Image” Originally published in Screen2008 Essay Peter Todd on Margaret Tait Originally published by LUX Online2004 Essay Ali Smith on Margaret Tait Originally published by LUX Online2005
