Papers of Roddy Lumsden -- Poetry

Scope and Contents

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".

Scope and Contents

Typescript and manuscript poems: "Sweet infancy", "In What Happens", "Having Sleepwalked". Also include a list of audio tracks(?), a typescript entitled "Moments: 4" with a pencil signature "F Gallagher Bellshill", and a leaflet for an event "four award-winning Scottish poets" at The Square Centre on Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, Tuesday 30 August [no year - could be 1988, 1994].

Scope and Contents Folder of typewritten poetry (and a few handwritten poems), including titles such as "Lines to a Missionary", "Cavoli Riscaldi", "St James Infirmly". Also includes: an envelope sent from Portugal (Sintra) in January 1995 containing a typescript of a prose text entitled "Long Division", a brown envelope with a handwritten poem entitled "Maybe You Touched on Something", a green leaflet for an event in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh on a Saturday...

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 (...

Scope and Contents

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

Notebooks containing poetry, prose texts, and notes by Roddy Lumsden. One notebook is dated "First Winter 1986" on the cover.

Scope and Contents

Unbound typescript of prose texts and a few poems: "One", "Midnight Mall", "The Unexplorer", "The Cover Song", "The House to Myself", "Orange-Picking", "Ruins", "Blue Overalls", "Nun", "The Bad Complexion", "To a Small Town Suicide" (poem), "Continent of Rain" (poem), "Checking", "Mince", "Child in the back" (poem), "Sleeve notes".

Scope and Contents

Documents relating to Lumsden's time at the University of Edinburgh, including pass certificates, envelopes, philosophy exam paper, graduation booklet and leaflets. There is also a typescript poem starting with "Sat on the edge of your bed".