(3) This testimonial has subsequently been reaffirmed by republication of long out of print works by Mitchell, principally by Canongate in their Scottish Classics imprint and by Polygon in their '
Lewis Grassic Gibbon Series', by the adoption of Sunset Song as a specified text by the Open University in 2005, and by the rural novel's induction to the Penguin Classics stable in 2007, which served to introduce the book to a conventional English readership that had been slow to acknowledge Gibbon's literary status within contemporary canonical groupings of the novel.
During his time out of the spotlight, his "fallow period" as he dubs it, he was busy working on projects including an adaptation of Sunset Song by
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a script on American poet Emily Dickinson, and an adaptation of Ed McBain's novel He Who Hesitates, while he's just about to start a first draft of a "wonderful contemporary novel" by Richard McCann called Mother of Sorrows.
Sunset Song, 15, PS19.99 Model turned actress Agyness Deyn shines in this version of
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots classic, which also stars Peter Mullan.
Fortunately his fellow actor, who appeared in Sunshine on Leith and stars in the upcoming film adaptation of
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, didn't give him the cold shoulder.
(2013) 'Editing a Twentieth-Century Novelist: Getting
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Back) Into Print', Studies in Scottish Literature 39 (1), pp.
The world should read
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, a lament for the world lost in the Great War seen through the eyes of Chris Guthrie, one of literature's most powerful female characters.
It's an area immortalised by
Lewis Grassic Gibbon in his classic novel Sunset Song.
In the work of the most formally resourceful writers of the Renaissance--MacDiarmid himself,
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sorley MacLean --the impetus towards cultural re-animation took on a specifically Scottish linguistic character that led inexorably away from the 'global' lingua franca of Joyce, Eliot and Pound.
LIKE many a schoolboy before him, Kevin Guthrie struggled to get to grips with
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's gruelling wartime novel Sunset Song in his English classes.
He starred in the successful big–screen version of The Proclaimers musical Sunshine On Leith and he is now shooting the hotly anticipated film of
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, with model and actress Agyness Deyn.
They came to audition to be extras in the film of the classic Scots novel, 'Sunset Song' by the North-east's best-loved writer
Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Finn was also part of the company's highly-acclaimed adaptation of
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song and sees some similarities between the two works.