Collections of poems assembled for, with drafts and correspondence relating to Diffractions, a collection of the majority of Dale's poems, excluding Local Habitation.
Second proof, computer print-out, inscribed ‘Second set of proofs, third on PDF file, 9/12/11’. With manuscript amendments tagged with self-adhesive labels. 303 pages, two to the leaf.
‘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...
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.
‘Complete books of verse with notes for the Collected’, mostly originally in a ring-binder, inscribed thus on the cover, consisting of copies, with extensive manuscript amendments and suggestions or instructions to his editor, of previous published works.
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)’.
Another copy of Add MS 89065/1/92, comprising the epigrams published as the section 'Foursquare' in Diffractions, with amendments, including the change of copyright date to 2009. Inscribed on the cover ‘Annotated for Collected’. With a detailed note on the verso of the title-leaf ‘Record of tex...
First proof, computer print-out, with manuscript amendments, and with a covering letter with suggestions for amendment from Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry. 295 pages, two to the leaf.
Edge to Edge (inscribed ‘Text for collected poems, updated 2005-06’), Under the Breath (inscribed 'annotated for Collected, December 2005), originally in the binder at Add MS 89065/1/104, With copious amendments and indications of inclusion in the final collection.