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Poetry.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .

Found in 2772 Collections and/or Records:

Typescripts of George Campbell Hay's collected Gaelic poems with English translations., [1947, or before]-1974.

 File
Identifier: MS.26745
Scope and Contents

The typescript includes the poems published in 'Fuaran Sléibh' (Glasgow, 1947) and 'O na Ceithir Airdean' (Edinburgh, 1952), as well as some later material.

Dates: [1947, or before]-1974.

Typescripts of poems and short stories of Bill Thomson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12010
Scope and Contents

Includes press cuttings.

Dates: circa 2000.

Typescripts of poems of Sydney Durward Tremayne probably chosen and arranged for ‘Selected and new poems’., [1973, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26682
Scope and Contents

There are several manuscript and typescript lists of contents, and an author's note (folio 26) which was not published.

Dates: [1973, or before.]

Typescripts of poems submitted to 'Lines Review'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11895
Scope and Contents

A small collection of typescripts of poems submitted to 'Lines Review'. These include typescripts, and some related letters, of Tom Buchan, Fred Cogswell, Rayne MacKinnon, Hermann Pálsson, John Taylor, Stephen Watts, Eric Wishart, and William Wolfe.

Dates: 1982-1994, undated.

Typescripts of poetry of Joe Corrie., 1928-1967, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26526-26533
Scope and Contents

Joe Corrie wrote a large number of poems, some of which were published in newspapers or in his collections of poetry, Rebel poems’ (London, 1932), “The Image o' God” (Edinburgh, 1937), and ‘Scottish pride’ (Newton Stewart, 1955).

Dates: 1928-1967, undated.