Drafts and working papers relating to Johnson's poetry, published and unpublished. Includes Johnson's translations of Welsh poems. Johnson published two collections of poems in 1964 and 1972.
Working papers and drafts relating to short prose and memoir writing by Johnson. Includes papers relating to publications of short prose collections Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs (1973), Statement Against Corpses (1964) and collaboration with photographer Julia Trevelyan Oma...
Drafts of typewritten and autograph poems written between 1954-1960. Including poems such as 'Villanelle in January', 'A Broader Ballad', 'Constituional Monarchs', 'In Union', 'Ranelagh', 'Spring in Barnes', 'Port Ceiriad', 'Three Unicorn Poerms', 'Prayer', 'On the Coming of Augustine', 'Natural...
Working drafts for published and unpublished poems
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Drafts of autograph and typewritten published poems written between 1964-1970. Including poems such as 'Distance Piece', 'Broom', 'Beech', 'The Marriage Upstairs' (Transatlantic Review), 'The Short Fear', 'Where is the Sprinkler Stop Valve?', 'A Suggested End to the Celebrated Long Run', 'A Rando...
Collected Poems, typescript poems written and collected by Johnson
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Drafts of typewritten published and unpublished poems written between 1957-1964. With notes about selection of poems for a collection. Love Poems collected including 'Vintages', 'A Dublin Unicorn', 'Vinnanelle in January', 'Poem for M.B.', 'Why do we lie', 'Theatregoer', 'Too many flesh suppers',...
Collected Poems, typescript poems written and collected by Johnson
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Drafts of typewritten published and unpublished poems written between 1964-1971. Poems collected include 'Food for Cancerous Thought', 'Where is the Sprinkler Stop Valve', 'The Succession of Life through Geological Time', 'Little Old Lady', 'Ar: Blayney's Last Directions', 'Beech: englyn milwr',...
Drafts of autograph poems written between 1964-1970. Including poems such as 'Image in Provence', 'Change is the only Constant', 'Port Ceiriad', 'Pompous Advice to the Kids', 'Vintages', 'The marriage upstairs', some copies of M. Radotti poems, 'The Son of Jesus Christ has doubts about his paren...
Selected poems submitted to Gregory Award, typewritten
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Typewritten manuscript of Selected Poems by B.S. Johnson, with notes relating to any other publication of the poems, submitted for Gregory Award in 1962.