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Tessa Ransford

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Born: July 07 1938

Died: 0101 09 20152015

Teresa Mary 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.

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Tessa Ransford

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Books from Tessa Ransford

A Rug of a Thousand Colours

Not Just Moonshine: New and Selected Poems

Medusa Dozen and Other Poems

Ian Hamilton Finlay

View from Zollernblick - Regional Perspectives in Europe: A Festschrift for Christopher Harvie

The State of Scotland: A Predicament for the Scottish Writer?

Borne on the Carrying Stream: The Legacy of Hamish Henderson

Siud an t-Eilean = There Goes the Island

In Praise of the Lyric Muse: Stewart Conn at 70

The Eildon Tree, Issue 4-5: Winter 2001

The Eildon Tree, Issue 9: Summer 2003

The Eildon Tree, Issue 1: Spring 1999

The Eildon Tree: Special Fiction Issue 6

Northwords, Issue 3

Scotia Nova: Poems for the early days of a better nation

Radical Scotland, April / May 1984

Fife Lines, Number 1, September 1998

Light of the Mind: Selected Poems

The Nightingale Question: Five Poets from Saxony