In 1943, after Faber & Faber published an anthology of Welsh poems, 25-year-old Scottish poet Maurice Lindsay wrote to T.S. Eliot in his position as Faber’s director of publishing and told him he should publish an anthology of Scottish poems. To Lindsay’s shock, Eliot invited him out to lunch and, over “tea and cucumber sandwiches,” agreed to publish one if Lindsay would edit it. Three years later, Modern Scottish Poetry was published. Now, sixty years later, as Jennifer Veitch reports in a story for The Scotsman, Lindsay, an accomplished poet himself, “is about to come full circle”: In July, Edinburgh University Press will publish an updated version of the anthology, “the biggest collection of 20th century Scottish poems available,” The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry; edited by Lindsay and Lesley Duncan. Asked who’s the most influential poet included, Lindsay says, Hugh MacDiarmid, “without a doubt. He was a genius, but he could also be a hell of a bad poet. He thought that everything he wrote was genius, and the older he got, they all started to get political. He got terribly angry if anyone dared criticise what was obviously awful work. But for about ten years he was a genius, which is not bad.”