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...

Scope and Contents Letters to Roddy Lumsden from: Paul Reekie (dated 21 July, no year); Robert Crawford (dated 14 June 1993); Edwin Morgan (dated 10 August 1995, with envelope); Neil Powell (dated 12 April 1995); "Mat" from "Ibid creative writing magazine" (one letter and one Pink Panther postcard, no year); Gerry Cambridge (two letters, dated 23 November 1994 and 28 October 1995, second one with envelope); Douglas Dunn (dated 2 August 1995); editor Kevin William...

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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...