Description
Single sheet (355×260 mm) of greenish-yellow card folded in half to make 4 pages, printed in black. A fine copy.
An Apprentice Angel. A New Poetry Broadsheet.
- London: New Poetry Press 1963
£50
Notes
A scarce broadside reprinting a poem first published in 1932 and dedicated to (or rather, targeted at) Lauchlan MacLean Watt, churchman and literary critic, who wrote an uncomplimentary review of MacDiarmid's collection 'To Circumjack Cencrastus' and is here imagined in ungainly angelic form, pot-bellied as 'flutherin' aboot in his study like a drunk craw'. This is an early production from Duncan Glen, poet and publisher who would establish Akros Publicsations in 1965 and reprint many MacDiarmid pieces over the next few decades. Library Hub records 3 copies: at NLS, Edinburgh and Oxford
