https://blog.cmackenzie.net/Recent content on breckanHugoenColin Mackenzie · CC BY-SA 4.0Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:50:00 +0100https://blog.cmackenzie.net/posts/hugh-macdiarmid-tassie/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:50:00 +0100https://blog.cmackenzie.net/posts/hugh-macdiarmid-tassie/<p>A&rsquo;ve jist sent back the Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie - at me an Donald Adamson jyntly won in last year&rsquo;s <em>Sangschaw</em> - for it tae be engraved wi the name o the 2026 winner, David Bleiman. As A&rsquo;ve no been able tae fin a leet o winners online, A took a note o the names on the tassie afore A happed it up an teuk it tae the Post Office.</p> <p>The tassie&rsquo;s been gien oot 36 times atween 1986 and 2025, wi nae award in 1999, 2004, 2006 an 2014. There&rsquo;s been 29 unique winners in that time, assumin David Purdie (1997) an David C Purdie (2005) are the same bodie - 30 if they&rsquo;re no. Fower fowk hae won the prize mair than yince: Douglas Kynloch five times; Sheena Blackhall fower times; an Elaine Morton an David (C) Purdie twice. David Bleiman noo jynes that nummer. 2025 wis the ainly time twa fowk hae been gien the tassie.</p>