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OLD.NEGATIVES
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T A B L E .O F .C O N T E N T S
Section One: In a Cold Room
Image between the Whiles

image Inge Sorensen

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LINES REVIEW published the verses here called Unfit in the winter of 1962-63, those called Vacancy in the summer of 1963; GLASGOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE published To Andrew, Before One in March 1971; THE GLASGOW REVIEW Not Striving in the summer of 1972; the Strathclyde University poetry magazine STRATA published Cowardly, Lost Absence and The Thinker in their winter-spring number of 1984; the Scottish broadsheet CLANJAMFRIE published Cowardlyimage mirror image of man at table with head they are back to back with text between
about the same time; CHAPMAN magazine published the whole 1952-57 sequence in its fiftieth edition, winter of 1987; PROSPICE the 1957-61 sequence in the summer of 1988; WEST COAST MAGAZINE published Lyrical in the summer of 1988; the GLASGOW HERALD and BETE NOIR the 1961-71 sequence in the autumn of 1988.

Some of the illustrations are from a set made in 1969-71 with help from a Scottish Arts Council grant,
and are reproduced by permission of Glasgow Hunterian Museum.
This digital collection copyright Alasdair Gray 2006

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