Speaking for Scotland

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MACDIARMID, Hugh. Speaking for Scotland. London: Lumphen Press 1939. Edited by Paul Potts. Broadsheet No. 3. The broadsheet contains six poems: The Law Exists to Create the Crime , Glasgow , Hand to Mouth Disease , The Spirit of Lenin Invoked for Any Great City , The Just Judge and Speed . Single thin orange sheet printed in black, with a red illustrated header highlighting the title in orange. Sheet size: H 39 cm x W 26 cm. Broadsheet has two creases where it has been folded at one time, some slight creasing near edges and one 1.5 cm tear in bottom edge otherwise a near fine copy of an extremely rare and fragile item, in a custom made folio folder. Note: This broadside printing of six of MacDiarmid's most overtly political poems was intended to be part of a series of broadside poems and political tracts to be sold on the streets of London. Broadsheets nos. 1 and 2 were written by Paul Potts, who sold them at 1p. each in the streets of London. MacDiarmid alludes briefly to this project in the first volume of his autobiography Lucky Poet (p. 246) where he claims over 2,000 copies were distributed; however, the onset of the war forced the abandonment of the project. Only one of the poems printed in Speaking for Scotland was included in MacDiarmid's Collected Poems (1978), the short lyric "The Just Judge" which was collected under the title "A Judge Commits Suicide." According to Worldcat only the National Library of Scotland and five universities in North America hold copies of this rare broadside. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1681318631396

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