Manuscripts Submitted to 'Scottish International'

Manuscripts submitted to Scottish International include the following contributions from major Scottish writers:

D. M. (David Macleod) Black

  • ’The Arts in Scotland’, TS of essay (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Spring Morning’, TS of poem (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Virginity’, MS of poem in text of undated letter (Gen. 2159/3)

George Mackay Brown

  • ‘The Return of the Women’, TS of Section VI of Mackay Brown's Fishermen with Ploughs (Gen. 2159/3)

George Bruce

  • ‘Autobiography’, ‘Reflections at Sixty’, ‘Transplant’, TSS of poems (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Beyond the Absurd: Some Comments on the Plays of Stanley Eveling’, TS of essay (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Nearly Always Summer: Some Notes from a Childhood in the Port of Fraserburgh’, TS of autobiographical essay (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Winter’, TS of autobiographical essay (Gen. 2159/2)

Elspeth Davie

  • ‘Out of Hand’, TS of short story (Gen. 2159/2)

Robin Fulton

Poems
  • ‘Holborn Head’, TS (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘A Minimal Encouragement’, TS  (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘White’, TS  (Gen. 2159/2)
Reviews
  • ‘Record Choice’, TS of review of musical recordings (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘The S.N.O. on Disc’, TS of review-article (Gen. 2159/1)
  • TS of review of The New Russian Poets 1953-1968, ed. George Reavey (Gen. 2159/2)

Robert Garioch

Poems
  • ‘The Big Music’, TS (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Bingo! Saith the Lord’, TS (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Fable’, TS (2 copies) (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Headlines’, TS (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, TS (2 copies) (Gen. 2159/2)
  • News Item’, TS (Gen. 2159/20
  • 'No More Billiard Balls’, TS (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘The Plague’, TS (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Scottish Scene’, TS (Gen. 2159/3)
  • ‘Weill-Met in Buchan: For Hamish Henderson’, TS (Gen. 2159/2)
Translations
  • ‘A Phantom of Haar’ and ‘Victory’, TSS of translations from Guillaume Apollinaire (Gen. 2159/1)
Reviews
  • TS of review of L. M. Angus-Butterworth’s monograph Robert Burns and the 18th-Century Revival in Scottish Vernacular Poetry (Gen. 2159/3)
  • TS of review of Stewart Conn’s poetry collection Stoats in the Sunlight (Gen. 2159/1)
  • TS of review of Duncan Glen's monograph A Small Press and Hugh MacDiarmid and 'recent Akros publications' (Gen. 2159/2)
  • TS of review of Ronald Eadie Munro [i.e. Duncan Glen]’s poetry collection Kythings and Other Poems (Gen. 2159/2)
  • TS of review of James McMillan’s monograph Anatomy of Scotland (Gen. 2159/2)
  • TS of review of William Neill’s poem Scotland’s Castle (Gen. 2159/2)
  • TS of review of Edith Anne Robertson’s Collected Ballads and Poems (Gen. 2159/1)
  • TS of review of Alexander Scott’s poetry collection Cantrips (Gen. 2159/1)
  • TS of review of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Fifteen Poems and a Play (Gen. 2159/3)
  • TS of review of Gael Turnbull’s poetry collection A Trampoline (Gen. 2159/2)
  • TS of review of Parkland Poets Nos. 1-4 (published by Duncan Glen’s Akros imprint) (Gen. 2159/2)
  • TS of review of Reclamation in the Seventies: Towards Greater Self Sufficiency in Home Food Production, ed. Norrie Tranter and R. M. Gorrie (Gen. 2159/2)
  • TS of review of first numbers of periodical Scotia (Gen. 2159/2)

Valerie Gillies

  •  ‘Boy with a Squint’, MS of poem [submitted as Valerie Simmons] (Gen. 2159/3)

Giles Gordon

  •  ‘The Scorpion’, TS of short story (Gen. 2159/2)

George Campbell Hay

  • ‘Bliadhna Gun Gheamradh (Am Paipear Naidheachd)’, TS poem (with English translation) (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘How Our Lord Got Asmund Bergemellom’s Hay’, TS of short story by Hans Aanrud, translated by Hay (Gen. 2159/2)

Hamish Henderson

  • TS of recorded conversation between Sorley Maclean, Iain Crichton Smith, John McInnes, Hamish Henderson, Donald MacAulay, and Robert Tait (Gen. 2159/2)
  • MS of ‘Story of Burkers (with Talk’), told by Davie Stewart, Banchory, collected by Hamish Henderson (Gen. 2159/2)

Archie Hind

  • TS of collective review of the novels  A Very Scotch Affair by Robin Jenkins, A Gift from Nessus by William McIlvanney, and The Glass House by Allan Campbell McLean (Gen. 2159/1)

Alan Jackson

  •  ‘The Tribe’, TS of poem (Gen. 2159/2)

Tom Leonard

  • ‘The Good Thief’, TS of poem (Gen. 2159/1)

Maurice Lindsay

  •  ‘A Hare’, TS of poem (Gen. 2159/2)

Donald MacAulay

  • TS of recorded conversation between Sorley Maclean, Iain Crichton Smith, John McInnes, Hamish Henderson, Donald MacAulay, and Robert Tait (Gen. 2159/2)
  • TS of review of Derick Thomson’s poetry collection Eadar Samradh Is Foghar (Gen. 2159/2)

Tom McGrath

  • TS of review of Jane Kramer’s monograph Paterfamilias: Allen Ginsberg (Gen. 2159/2)

Sorley Maclean

  • ‘Palach’, TS of poem (with English translation)
  • TS of recorded conversation between Sorley Maclean, Iain Crichton Smith, John McInnes, Hamish Henderson, Donald MacAulay, and Robert Tait (Gen. 2159/2)

Aonghas MacNeacail

  • ‘Elegy’, ‘Easter’, ‘Ferry Poem’, and ‘Coille giuthais’ (with English translation), TSS of 4 poems (submitted as Angus Nicholson) (Gen. 2159/2)

Edwin Morgan

  • ‘Flowers of Scotland’, TS of poem  (Gen. 2159/2)
  • ‘Heraclitus in Gorky Street: The Theme of Metamorphosis in the Poetry of Voznesensky’, TS of essay (Gen. 2159/1)
  • TS of review of Iain Crichton Smith’s novel The Last Summer and poetry collection From Bourgeois Land (Gen. 2159/3)

David Morrison

  • *TS of review of Caithness Notebooks 1-7 (Gen. 2159/1)

George Scott-Moncrieff

  • ‘Fox’, TS of poem (Gen. 2159/1)
  • ’It Looks like a Jile and It Stinks: Some Reflections on Architecture New and Old’, TS of essay (Gen. 2159/1)

Iain Crichton Smith

  • ‘Tha Thu air Aigeann M’Inntinn’, ‘A’ Dol Dhachaidh’, ‘Oran Gaoil’, ‘An Eala Bhan’, ‘An Crom-Lus’, and ‘Air Latha Breagha’, TSS of poems (with English translations) (Gen. 2159/1)
  • ‘The White Air of March’, TS of poem (Gen. 2159/3)
  • TS of recorded conversation between Sorley Maclean, Iain Crichton Smith, John McInnes, Hamish Henderson, Donald MacAulay, and Robert Tait (Gen. 2159/2)

Sydney Goodsir Smith

  •  ‘Drifts’ and ‘Late Spring’, TSS of poems (with MS corrections) (Gen. 2159/3)
  • ‘The Bonnie Reidheid’, TS of translation from Guillaume Apollinaire (Gen. 2159/1)

Derick S. Thomson

  • ‘Meadhon Samhraidh’ and ‘Dòmhnall Iseabail’, TS of poems (with English translations) (Gen. 2159/1)
  • ‘Na Lochlannaich a’ tighinn air Tìr an Nis’, TS of poem (with English translation) (Gen. 2159/2)

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