Box Coll-2126: Box 1

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Year planner for the year 1990, with handwritten notes by Lumsden. Contains lists of contacts, and events and appointments attended.

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Folder of handwritten and typewritten poetry by Roddy Lumsden. The file also includes a copy of a newspaper article about Imogen Mallais-Scott, loose notes, postcards stuck on two A4 pages, leaflets, and empty envelopes.

Scope and Contents Folder entitled "Shootin' Cinderella" containing photographs of poets and authors published by Bloodaxe Books (John Burnside, Andrew Greig, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay, W. N. Herbert) and Jonathan Cape (Duncan McLean, Alan Warner, Irvine Welch, Tom Lenard, Janice Galloway, A. L. Kennedy), typescript of poem "Infighting" with manuscript notes, typed document entitled with "Biographical Notes" with manscript notes, typed notes, a handout about the publisher...

Scope and Contents Two spiral ring binders containing drafts of poems (typed). The first poems of each binder are "The Ultimate Curve" and "Seat Still Warm". No date. One of the binders include a few enclosures: two photographs ("Roddy in a pub with Anna Rowse", and "Roddy and Sinead at Edinburg Graduation Aug. 1997"), a loose A4 page with "Raw anagrams of Roderick Chalmers Lumsden" (typed), an invitation from the Scottish Cultural Press to the publication of further volumes in the Scottish Contemporary Poets...

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Documents relating to Roddy Lumsden's time in Aberdeen as Writer in Residence in 1995, including: letter from the City of Aberdeen confirming the offer to be "Writer in Residence"; good-bye card signed by Lumsden's friends, Lumsden's Aberdeen library card; and invoices.

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Letters from Scottish arts bodies, namely The South Bank Centre and the Scottish Arts Council, dating from 1993 to 1995 and concerning performances and writings by Roddy Lumsden. Also includes an invoice and Scottish Arts Council pamphlet entitled "Literature".

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Letter from Bloodaxe Books to Roddy Lumsden, dated 1996 and concerning his first collection Yeah Yeah Yeah, published in August 1997. Also includes an invoice in an envelope on which Lumsden has written a poem entitled "Funeral" in pen, and a leaflet detailing "Bloodaxe Books House Style".

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Letters from Christopher Reid (poetry editor at Faber and Faber) to Roddy Lumsden dating from 1991 to 1994 and concerning the creation and publication of Poetry Introduction 8 in 1993. Also includes invoices.

Scope and Contents Three letters to Roddy Lumsden: from W. W. Robson, Masson Professor of English Literature, dated 15 June 1987 thanking Lumsden for his entry for the Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize, although it was awarded to someone else; from Kathryn MacLean, publicist at Polygon, dated 5 January 1994 asking Lumsden if he would read from the book Dream State at an event in Edinburgh; and a reminder from the University of Edinburgh Library about overdue borrowed books, dated 6 July...

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Press release from the Society of Authors concerning the awards of several literary prizes in 1991, including the Eric Gregory award which Roddy Lumsden won that year. Also includes a letter from the Society of Authors to Lumsden, dated 24 June 1994, sending him his due for his work in the Society's anthology of Eric Gregory.