Box Coll-2126: Box 2

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Newspaper extract from The Herald, 25 September 1993, featuring a review of the book Poetry Introduction 8 entitled "When would-be poets go public" by Alasdair Macrae; typescript poems ("The Dark Gift, "Singing Bird", and "Amor Volat Undique") sent by Gerry Cambridge to Roddy Lumsden to get his opinion; and three loose pages of manuscript poems presumably by Lumsden.

Scope and Contents Folder of handwritten and typewritten poetry and short stories by Roddy Lumsden, including poems entitled "Cavoli Riscaldi", "Vanishing", "First Impressions (Of Psychosis)", "Getting to the Bottom", etc., and two short stories entitled "One" and "Recognition". Also includes a mock title page for a collection of poems entitled Tried & Tested! Poems from the DHT workshop October 1987 - May 1988 edited by...

Scope and Contents Folder of handwritten and typewritten poetry and short stories by Roddy Lumsden, including poems entitled "Poem from the Gap", "The Capistrano Swallow Who Never Came Home", "Me and Florence Nightingale", "Revenge on a Neighbour", "Candle", "Kippis", "20 Haiku for my Dentist", etc. Also includes a letter from Diana Shine, Secretary for Awards of the Society of Authors, dated 25 August 1993, concerning the inclusion of five...

Scope and Contents Folder of typewritten poetry by Roddy Lumsden, including poems entitled "Jaqueline", "Anti-Chaos Eikons", "Some Notes on a Death", "Concertina", "State of Head", "Cavoli Riscaldi", and many more. Also includes a "What Happens Next" prospectus for events happening in October [no year], a handwritten text in prose, a "glossary" of terms used by Lumsden addressed to his publishers, and a newspaper page (...

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Folder containing a print representing a tightrope walker, a photocopy of an interview by Liz Lochhead mentioning Roddy Lumsden, with a handwritten note by Lumsden's on the back, and three letters to "Dearest Sis" and "Dear L. C. B." (dated 13 December 1987, 23 March 1990, and 4 June 1990).

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Miscellaneous notes, ephemera, pamphlets for social events, newspaper clippings, etc. Includes a letter from C. Wolfram Swetz van Middhlar dated 27 September 1994 to Roddy Lumsden, requesting his own favourite poem in manuscript form.

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Eight-page letter from Roddy Lumsden to "Mark", dated around 1992 or 1993, sent from 91 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh.

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Folder of typewritten poetry by Roddy Lumsden, including poems entitled "Judgement", "Alone in the Hawaiian Lounge", "Detox", "What Was Missing", "Like Achilles", "Quoad Sacra", and many more. Also includes a contents list for "Let a fat Man Through".

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Unbound typescript of "Elsewhere Perhaps Later".