Collections of poems assembled for, with drafts and correspondence relating to Diffractions, a collection of the majority of Dale's poems, excluding Local Habitation.
Drafts and correspondence relating to a projected book of epigrams, provisionally entitled 'Four-Square' (sometimes spelled as one or two words), amended, augmented and deleted from over a number of years. Forty of these were published as Eight by Five (Presteigne: Rack Press, 2007) and most were...
Drafts, printed texts, correspondence and reviews of Edge to Edge. This work included poems from The Storms, Mortal Fire, Cross Channel, One Another, Too Much of Water and Earth Light, and nine poems not previously collected.
Notebooks and diaries. The notebooks contain mostly drafts of poems, many being annotated with references to submission of publishers and publication. The contents indicated against each volume are usually based on Dale’s notes affixed to the volumes at later dates, but sometimes using the words ...
Drafts and texts published in periodicals or elsewhere of single poems by Dale. Not all the poems appear in collections of his work, and some are unpublished. Published poems are in complete issues of periodicals, pages extracted from issues, or photographic or electrostatic copies from issues.
Drafts, correspondence and papers relating to 'An Essay on Villon'. The whole work is in rhyme, including the list of Dale’s earlier publications and the bibliography. An early draft indicates that there was an intention to place ‘Earth Bound: an Essay on Dante’ at the end of this work.