‘New & Collected Poems, Peter Dale, prep time 2008-2010’. Word-processed, with manuscript notes, and including several versions of the introductory and acknowledgements pages which bear the copyright date 2010. The title-page shows the new title 'Diffractions: New and Collected Poems, 1968-2...
Further draft text. Also with some poems represented wholly or partially as cuttings from the Macmillan edition of Mortal Fire and from other publications (not all the same cuttings as in the above), with some autograph amendments and including a dedicatory poem and some further translations.
Word-processed draft on A6 leaves, with acknowledgements and notes, but without index, and with copyright date of 1998. Inscribed ‘With only surviving prose introduction’, although this also appears in earlier and later versions, and with a few manuscript amendments. Contents and notes give the ...
Word processed draft on A5 leaves, with acknowledgements and notes, but without index, and copyright date of 2000. Inscribed ‘Updated 2002’ and with manuscript amendments and additional epigrams and others struck through.
Poems written for Dale's grandchildren. Includes: Word-processed draft of ‘The Dragon’. Included in ‘Kapok, Kayak’ below.‘Kapok, Kayak and other poems’. Word-processed draft inscribed ‘First drafts’ and considerably amended with poems added to the text and table of contents.‘Kapok, Kayak and oth...
Proofs, etc. for the edition of 40 epigrams published by the Rack Press. Includes: Pencilled and manuscript drafts of make-up and contents of the volume.Unpaged proof with suggestions for blurb and copyright date of 2006.Photocopy of this with ‘Eight by five’ amended to ‘8 Eight by five 5’.Proof...
Word-processed drafts mostly on A6 and smaller than A6 leaves, of new poems envisaged as forming a section to be entitled 'Diffractions' in 'Collected poems'. Eventually the 'Collected poems' were re-named 'Diffractions', but with this section still named 'Diffractions' within the larger work.
Typewritten text of Edge to Edge, being another copy of Add MS 89065/1/69, with folio numbers and manuscript amendments, inscribed ‘Corrected copy for second edition and Collected 1 (Began finalization 2009)’.