Alasdair Gray (1934-2019)

Riddrie-born, reared in the years of War Alasdair Gray was evacuated twice Perth shire, then on to Lanark shire He is Glasgow's William Blake, a visionary, His mural for the auditorium of the Òran Mór Is one of our country's most magnificent works His plays were broadcast on radio and TV Philip Hobsbaum included Gray in his nest of writers His golden clutch of eggs Who's Who of Scotland's very finest writers Kelman, Lochhead, Leonard, Black Aonghas MacNeacail, the living voice of the Gael He was Glasgow's Artist Recorder Drawing places, poets, politicians, the general public Shall we sound the roll call of his children? His own creations? Lanark, Janine, The Fall of Kelvin Walker Poor Things, Old Men In Love, The Ends of Our Tethers, Ten Tales Tall & True, Old Negatives The Loss of the Golden Silence Homeward Bound: A Trio for Female Chauvinists Sam Lang and Miss Watson: A One Act Sexual Comedy McGrotty and Ludmilla Working Legs: A Play for Those Without Them Speaking of physical parts, He instructed his body be gifted for medical science Will anatomists find within him the Scottish Disease? That endemic Caledonian Antisyzygy?