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Record Id:
040-002354595
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002264534
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x000239
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88984/8/1
Title:

Copy for Bulletin

Scope & Content:

Contains typewritten and manuscript contributions written by poets whose work had been selected as either a Choice or Recommendation. Contains:

  • Vernon Watkins on The Death Bell (Bulletin May 1954)
  • Norman Nicholson on The Pot Geranium (Bulletin May 1954)
  • Frances Cornford on Collected Poems (Bulletin Sep 1954)
  • Laurie Lee manuscript of 'Apples' from My Many-Coated Man (Bulletin Mar 1955). The poem itself does not appear in the Bulletin.
  • William Plomer MS of 'The Sculptor' (Bulletin Jun 1955) to mark A Shot in the Park being selected as a Recommendation, even though 'The Sculptor' does not appear in that collection. The poem later appeared in Plomer’s Collected Poems (1960)
  • S. J. Tessimond on Selection (Bulletin Aug 1958)
  • Patrick Kavanagh on Come Dance With Kitty Stobling (Bulletin Jun 1960)
  • William Plomer on Collected Poems (Bulletin Jun 1960)
  • John Betjeman on Summoned By Bells (Bulletin Dec 1960)
  • Stephen Spender’s 'in memoriam' on Frances Cornford (Bulletin Sep 1960)
  • David Holbrook on Imaginings (Bulletin Feb 1961)
  • Louis MacNeice on Solstices (Bulletin Feb 1961)
  • John Wain on Weep Before God (Bulletin Jul 1961)
  • Elizabeth Jennings on Song for a Birth or a Death (Bulletin Jul 1961)
  • Patrick Creagh on A Row of Pharaohs (Bulletin Mar 1962)
  • Thomas Kinsella on Downstream (Bulletin Sep 1962)
  • Michael Baldwin on Death on a Live Wire and On Stepping From a Sixth-Storey Window (Bulletin Dec 1962)
  • Robert Graves on New Poems (Bulletin Dec 1962)
  • Louis MacNeice on The Burning Perch (Bulletin Sep 1963)
  • Philip Larkin The Whitsun Weddings (Bulletin Feb 1964)
  • Patric Dickinson This Cold Universe (Bulletin Dec 1964)
  • Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel (Bulletin Feb 1965)
  • Stephen Spender’s 'in memoriam' on T. S. Eliot (Bulletin Feb 1965)
  • David Wright on Adam at Evening (Bulletin Feb 1965)
  • Paul Dehn on Fern on the Rock (Bulletin Sep 1965)
  • John Holloway on Wood and Windfall (Bulletin Sep 1965)
  • John Smith on A Discreet Immorality (Bulletin Sep 1965)
  • John Heath-Stubbs on Selected Poems (Bulletin Sep 1965)
  • Kathleen Raine on The Hollow Hill (Bulletin Nov 1965)
  • C. Day Lewis on The Room and Other Poems (Bulletin Nov 1965)
  • Christopher Middleton on Nonsequences (Bulletin Nov 1965)
  • Elizabeth Jennings on Collected Poems (Bulletin Sep 1967)

Also contains items for unidentified issues of the Bulletin:

  • Typewritten poems by Stevie Smith: 'I Remember' and 'Pad, Pad', corrected
  • Signed, corrected typewritten poem by Hilary Corke, 'The Toilet'
  • Manuscript poem by Alastair W. Thomson, 'The Last Wolf'
  • Manuscript prose piece on poetry festivals by Patric Dickinson.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002264534
036-002354590
037-002354591
038-002354592
040-002354595
Is part of:
Add MS 88984 : Poetry Book Society archive
Add MS 88984/8 : Poetry Book Society publications
Add MS 88984/8/1-13 : Poetry Book Society Bulletin
Add MS 88984/8/1-11 : Poetry Book Society Bulletin correspondence and papers

 

Add MS 88984/8/1 : Copy for Bulletin
Hierarchy:
032-002264534[0008]/036-002354590[0001]/037-002354591[0001]/038-002354592[0001]/040-002354595
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88984
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 folder
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1954
End Date:
1967
Date Range:
1954-1967
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)