Papers of Roddy Lumsden -- Poetry

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Typescript of a prose text entitled "Long Division", with manuscript annotations in red ink.

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Untitled spiral-bound typescript containing poetry. The first poem is entitled "After Entomology".

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Untitled spiral-bound typescript containing poetry. The first poem is entitled "Actor's Nightmare".

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Unbound typescript of "Elsewhere Perhaps Later".

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...

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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.

Scope and Contents Material relating to Roddy Lumsden's life, perhaps gathered on the occasion of his funerals in 2020. Includes: photographs of him throughout his life (as a baby, at school, as a child, as a young adult, as a professional writer; many photographs also include his family, his friends, his former girlfriend); school material (photograph of Roddy as a child receiving a prize for the Guardbridge Competition, and prize certificate, 1974; Scottish Certificate of Education, 1983; Certificate of...

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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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.

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Notebook entitled "Roddy / Carrick - Poetry - Early 1984" containing manuscript poetry, and bundles of typed poems on A4 papers, undated. Also includes a photocopy of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, and a reporter's notepad with handwritten notes.