Poetry

1. Collections

The MacDiarmid Papers contain working materials for the following poetry collections:

• The Kind of Poetry I Want (1961), 49 ff., MS (Gen 895/1) and 18 ff., MS and TS (Gen 895/2)
• Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone (1963), 7 ff., MS (Gen 915), and 9 ff., TS (Gen 916)
• Second Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems (1937), 33 ff., TS (MS 2975)

2. Individual Poems

There are also MS or TS texts of the following poems:

• ‘The Antlered Stag (For Valda)’, 1 f., pencil (Gen 887/82) (enclosed in letter to F. G. Scott)
• ‘Auld Reekie’, 5 ff., pen (Gen 767/1(b)/i)
• ‘Auld Reekie’, 5 ff., pencil (Gen 887/12-16) (enclosed in letter to F. G. Scott)
• ‘Ballad of Aun, King of Sweden’, 2 ff., pen (Gen 887/72-73) (enclosed in letter to F. G. Scott)
• ‘The Belly-Grip’, 3 ff., pen (Gen 767/1(b)/ii)
• ‘Bonus’, 1 f., TS (MS 3002)
• ‘The Borders’, 5 ff., pen (Gen 767/21)
• ‘Bourgeois Poetry’, 1 f., TS (MS 3002)
• ‘Bracken Hills in Autumn’, 3 ff., pencil (Gen 887/74-76) (enclosed in letter to F. G. Scott)
• ‘By Wauchopeside’, 1 f., TS with MS amendments (Gen 767/28/1/10-11)
• ‘The Curly Snake: To M. P.’, 1 f., pen (Gen 2236/2/9)
• ‘Cut-Throat Competition’, 1 f., TS (MS 3002)
• ‘The Difference’, 1 f., pen (Gen 1957/5/1-2) and 1 f., TS (Gen 1957/3)
• ‘Earth is Enough’, 1 f., pen (Gen 1957/5/1-2) and 1 f., TS (Gen 1957/3)
• ‘The Fall of France, 25 June 1940’, 1 f., pen (Gen 887/71) (enclosed in letter to F. G. Scott)
• ‘For the Hundred and Fiftieth Birthday of the Royal Scottish Academy’, 2 ff., TS (MS 2965.8/25-26)
• ‘The Greatest of These’, 1 f., pencil (Gen 767/22)
• ‘The Highlanders Are Not a Sensitive People’, 2 ff., pen (Gen 895/3)
• ‘In the Slums of Glasgow’, 1 f., TS (MS 3002)
• ‘Is It Nothing to You?’, 2 ff., TS (Gen 1957/6)
• ‘The Kind of Poetry I Want’, 49 ff., pen (Gen 895/1)
• ‘The Kind of Poetry I Want’, extracts, 18 ff., pen, pencil, and TS (Gen 895/2)
• ‘The Miracle of Edinburgh’, 1 f., pen (Gen 1957/5/4)
• ‘Most of my Contemporaries’, 1 f., pen (Gen 1957/5/1-2) and 1 f., TS (Gen 1957/3)
• ‘The Nature of a Bird’s World’, 11 ff., pen (Gen 8953)
• ‘Oh Ancient Wars in Poppies Blow’, 1 f., TS (Gen 2236/7)
• 'On a Raised Beach’, 6 ff., pencil (Gen 887/83-88) (enclosed in letter to F. G. Scott)
• ‘A Salonikan Storm Song’, 2 ff., pen (Gen 2236/7)
• ‘Scots Dyke’, 1 f., pen (Gen 1957/5/1-2) and 1 f., TS (Gen 1957/3)
• ‘Sea-Green Eyes of Orkney’, 1 f., pen (Gen 1957/5/5)
• ‘S.O.S. (Save our Skins)’, 2 ff., pen (Gen 2236/2/10)
• ‘The Stone of the Dog, in Glen Lyon’, 1 f., pen (Gen 908/3/1)
• ‘The Terns’, 1 f., pen (Gen 908/3/2)
• ‘Two Memories’, 2 ff., pen (Gen 767/23)
• ‘Virgilium vidi tantum: On Shakespeare’s Quatercentenary’, pen, pencil, and TS, 6 ff. (Gen 897)
• ‘Water Music’, 8 ff., pen (Gen 767/1(e))
• ‘The Wild Swan’, 1 f., pen (Gen 908/3/3)

3. Poetry Translations

• ‘Aniara’ (from the Swedish of Harry Martinson), 106 ff., pen (Gen 894)
• ‘Weep and Wail No More (from the Italian of Giuseppe Ungaretti)’, 1 f., pen (Gen 1957/5/1-2) and 1 f., TS (Gen 1957/3)