{"id":587915,"date":"2025-11-23T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587915\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:38:12","slug":"papers-of-roddy-lumsden-bella-caledonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587915\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers of Roddy Lumsden \u2013 Bella Caledonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work of the remarkable poet Roddy Lumsden has been put online by Edinburgh University.<\/p>\n<p>A note about its arrangements explains:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoddy Lumsden did not organise his work systematically. Instead, he was known to place printed poems into various plastic bags scattered around his flat, without any specific order or context. The records were contained within these bags at the time of deposit, and it has been decided to preserve this original arrangement, avoiding the imposition of a new order that might introduce subjective interpretations, and to honour the personal nature of the collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Papers of Roddy Lumsden here: <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.collections.ed.ac.uk\/repositories\/2\/resources\/87523?fbclid=IwY2xjawOPAhpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeX_QXpNlFhb1C21pyDnbL1o56I6G0vr_Nui72IPbEOPm0bpluRpd4hlE4U3c_aem_mcMb_sV_SezcJe1EEQTfBA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collection: Papers of Roddy Lumsden | ArchivesSpace Public Interface<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bellacaledonia.org.uk\/2020\/01\/20\/roddy-lumsden-1966-2020-struggle-for-pleasure-edinburgh-now-and-then\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roddy Lumsden \u2013 1966-2020 \u2013 Struggle for Pleasure: Edinburgh Now and Then \u2013 Bella Caledonia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The work of the remarkable poet Roddy Lumsden has been put online by Edinburgh University. A note about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-587915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115596696320726226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}