Lines Review

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{More footnotes|date=January 2009}} '''''Lines Review''''' was a Scottish poetry journal founded by the publisher Callum Macdonald in 1952.<ref name=nls>{{cite web|title=Inventory. Lines Review|url=http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc11219.pdf|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=28 October 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202043613/http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc11219.pdf|archivedate=2 February 2013}}</ref> Its original editorial board included the Scottish poets Sydney Goodsir Smith, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean and Denis Peploe.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18653903.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329052005/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18653903.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 March 2015|title=Lines reaches the end|author=Trevor Royle|date=29 April 1998|work=The Scotsman|accessdate=22 November 2014}}</ref> Latterly its individual editors included the poets Robin Fulton and Tessa Ransford. Tessa Ransford, the founder of the Scottish Poetry Library, published the final issue in 1998.<ref name=nls/>

The magazine featured the poetry of many important Scottish poets such as Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown or Angus Calder and was a starting point for many young Scottish poets.

The editor of ''Lines Review'' from 1977 to 1984 was the poet, William Montgomerie (1904 Glasgow - 1994 Edinburgh).

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==External links== * [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc8851.pdf National Library of Scotland Inventory]

Category:Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Defunct magazines published in Scotland Category:Magazines established in 1952 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1998 Category:Poetry magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Literary magazines published in Scotland