A rich collection of mainly English, Scottish and American poetry and publications relating to the craft of producing verse. The presentation inscriptions point to Roddy Lumsden role as mentor to younger poets on both sides of the Atlantic.

A collection of monographs and journal issues (including rare student publications) featuring the poet’s work, with examples of “reading” copies for public performances, annotations evidencing edits and textual variations and consistent ownerships inscriptions.

Consists of material relating to published and submitted works, marketing sales and publicity, funding applications and literary events hosted by IRON Press.

Contains the personal archive of poet Vincenza Holland including notebooks; diaries; published and unpublished material; and correspondence with poets local to the North East. Includes drafts of her poetry collection 'Mrs Turnbull's Tree' which was published by Bloodaxe Books in 1990.

Between 1966-73 Holland lived abroad with her family. First in newly independent Lesotho - a country surrounded by apartheid South Africa - but also for 18 months on Corfu. Holland was politically and socially engaged in what was happening around her, and her archive contains many collected documents, cuttings and ephemera relating to her travels.

The collection documents the author’s published poetry in pamphlet, book and journal format and includes French, Norwegian, German, Serbian and Swedish translations of some of her work.

Consists of the working papers and correspondence of the poet Selima Hill.

Consists of editorial material relating to published works by Flambard Press. Also contains documents relating to the marketing of the company.

A collection of books and periodical issues which attest the poet’s publication history and personal connections within the British literary scene.

The collection includes monographs and journal issues featuring Brendan Cleary’s poetry, as well as works by other poets whose work was published in The Echo Room - the poetry magazine which he edited - and by the associated venture Echo Room Press.

Bloodaxe Books authors and books have won virtually every major literary award given to poetry, including the T.S. Elliot Prize, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize. Bloodaxe is also known for its work with translated collections and American poetry, and have published responsively to cultural change in Britain, publishing some of the finest writers in the British-Caribbean and South-Asian diaspora. Another significant achievement is that Bloodaxe publish more female writers than any other British poetry publisher, at a 50:50 male:female ratio. This collection consists of the books published by Bloodaxe Books including poetry and prose.