Somerville Murray (13 results)

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Pamphlet. Condition: Fair. First Edition. No date (1960).13pp Cover drawing by 'Vicky'. Uncommon - only 3 on COPAC. Cover a bit creased. Ink notes on back cover. Faint water stain to last two pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 135 pages : illustration ; 21 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9781912147328, 1912147327 ; OCLC 1020453490 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Poems giving voices to 67 remarkable women of Scotland from thousands of years BC to 21st century women. A diverse range of women are represented through poetic monologues in Scots and English. This powerful, unique, well-researched collection is a new landmark in the fine tradition of Scottish women's writing from a renowned poet and performer. ; Contents: reconstructed head of a young woman -- Quines: Nessie -- Sgathach -- Teneu -- Unn the deep-minded -- Saint Margaret -- The Dwaum / Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan -- Queen o the bean / Mary Fleming -- The abdication of Mary Queen of Scots -- Nine hiaku for Esther Inglis -- A dochter's dreame / Elizabeth Melville -- The killing times / Margaret Wilson -- Columbine Cameron / Jea Cameron -- Hauf-hingit Maggie / Maggie dickson -- A curious herbal muses / Elizabeth Blackwell -- It's aye sang wi me / Caroline Oliphant, Lady Nairne -- Self-control promotes herself / Mary Brunton -- In her ninety-second year / Mary Somerville -- Captain Betsy Miller's fareweel tae Clytus -- Terpsichore reflects on her master / Maud Sulter -- Fanny Wright meditates on Mary Shelley's death -- Demerara / Eliza Junor -- Seeing red / Helen Macfarlane -- Oran Song / Mary MacPherson -- Mary Slessor takes St. Paul to task -- Janie Annan Slessor keeps vigil -- Horsehead Nebula speaks / Williamina Paton Gleming -- Scotland celebrates 3-0 at Easter Road -- My birth in her hands / Margaret Macdonald -- Skull / Mary Garden -- Rest time in the life class / Dorothy Johnstone -- Helen Crawfurd's memoirs in seven chapters -- The scaur / Ethel baxter -- Ma ain country / Violt Jacob -- Elsie Inglis prepares for her last journey -- Justice, persons and peace / Chrystal Macmillan -- The Red Duchess / Katharine Stewart-Murray -- Jain Haining -- ss Bonita praises Victoria Drummond -- The river kens Nancy Riach -- The penny pledge / Ena Lamont Stewart -- At Miss Eardley's / Joan Eardley -- Admiral of the Bering recalls Alaska / Isobel Wylie Hutchison -- The flyting of the red shoes and the blue shoes / Moira Shearer -- Anna buchan's obituary -- Mairi Anndra gives thanks to Margaret Fay Shaw -- I am Jennie Lee's open university -- All it takes / Margaret Blackwood -- The ballad of Craigmillar / Helen Crummy -- What a voice / Lizzie Higgins -- Margaret Tait's Portrait of Ga -- A Megan Boyd fishing fly for Prince Charles, July, 1981 -- Maggie's Centre, edinburgh, tells of its conception and growth / Maggie Keswick Jencks -- Daith salutes Margo MacDonald -- Kantha Sari heirloom / Mina Ray -- Orkney recalls Gunnnie / Gunnie Moberg -- The Living Mountain addresses a five pound banknote / Nan Shepher -- Rose stalks in snow / Christian Small -- And women's coalition danced / Elizabeth Meehan -- Tessa thinks the Scottish Poetry Library / Tessa Ransford - Epilogue: In Memoriam, Catriona White and Great Tapestry of Scotland stitchers -- Glossary (Scots and Gaelic) -- Further reading -- Index of quines ; ; FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 168pp, chronology, biographies and checklist, num col ills. Pictorial card with integral flaps. Reading crease to spine, light mark on top edge of pages, else near new. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition held in 2008-2009. Size: 4to.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo (29 x 23cm), pp.12. Newspaper format with six sheets folded once, unbound. Toned paperstock. Fine. A special In Memoriam issue to celebrate the life of Roland Muirhead with contributions from the great and the good of Scottish thinkers including Hugh MacDiarmid, Sir Compton Mackenzie and Douglas Young amongst many others.