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 3 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the School of Poets, coprisng poems written by members.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14017
Dates:
2016-2017.
Papers of the School of Poets, mainly comprising poems written by members.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13308
Scope and Contents
The School of Poets, founded in 1981 by Tessa Ransford, meets monthly (excluding August and December) in the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. The aim of the School is to provide a meeting place for poets, new or experienced, to encourage and learn from each other. The archive contains the poems submitted and discussed by members at the monthly meetings.
Dates:
2010-2011.
Papers of the School of Poets, mostly comprising poems written by members but also including some earlier administrative, promotional and miscellaneous papers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13703/1-5
Scope and Contents
The School of Poets was founded in 1981 by Tessa Ransford to provide a meeting place for poets, new or experienced, to encourage them to learn from each other. The School meets monthly (excluding August and December) in the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh.
Dates:
1983-2015.