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Scottish selection: Poems
20 pages, Paperback
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Tessa Ransford
41 booksTeresa Mary ("Tessa") Ransford OBE was a poet, activist and the founding director of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Ransford's mother was Lady Torfrida Ransford and her father, Sir Alister Ransford, was Master of the Mint of Mumbai. The family moved back to the United Kingdom in 1944, finally moving to Scotland in 1948 when her father took up the position of bursar at the Loretta School in Musselburgh. Ransford was educated at the St Leonard’s School in St. Andrews before going on to study German and Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
In 1959, she married Iain Kay Striven, a minister of the Church of Scotland and the pair lived in Pakistan until 1968 with their four children. During the 1970s, Ransford started writing and publishing poems and founded the School of Poets in 1981 as a place for poets to gather on a monthly basis to support one another.
Ransford produced over fifteen volumes of poetry during her lifetime.
The Scottish Poetry Library had 300 books when she started it in 1984. By the time she died, it had over 30,000. She was awarded the OBE in 2000 for services to the Scottish Poetry Library and was President of Scottish PEN from 2003 to 2006.
Ransford's mother was Lady Torfrida Ransford and her father, Sir Alister Ransford, was Master of the Mint of Mumbai. The family moved back to the United Kingdom in 1944, finally moving to Scotland in 1948 when her father took up the position of bursar at the Loretta School in Musselburgh. Ransford was educated at the St Leonard’s School in St. Andrews before going on to study German and Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
In 1959, she married Iain Kay Striven, a minister of the Church of Scotland and the pair lived in Pakistan until 1968 with their four children. During the 1970s, Ransford started writing and publishing poems and founded the School of Poets in 1981 as a place for poets to gather on a monthly basis to support one another.
Ransford produced over fifteen volumes of poetry during her lifetime.
The Scottish Poetry Library had 300 books when she started it in 1984. By the time she died, it had over 30,000. She was awarded the OBE in 2000 for services to the Scottish Poetry Library and was President of Scottish PEN from 2003 to 2006.
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