Add MS 89065/1/40

Poems written 1959-1989. Includes:

• ‘The Visceral Image’. A poem in the printed catalogue of Eddie Wolfram’s paintings shown at the Woodstock Gallery. 1959. With a review of the exhibition in Art News and Review, vol. 1, no. 14 (1 Aug 1959).
• ‘The Passing of an Old Lady’. In Tomorrow: a Review of Literature, no. 4 ([1960]). This issue also includes ‘A Slight Ache’ a play by Harold Pinter.
• ‘The Return’. Extract from Shenandoah, vol. 16, no. 2 (Winter 1964).
• ‘House-Martins’. Extract from handbook of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 1965.
• ‘Not Drinking Water’. Extract from Shenandoah, vol. 17, no. 1 (Autumn 1965). Published in Edge to Edge.
• ‘Oxford’ a parody of David Harsent, written by Dale under the pseudonym D. N. Avidhearts (an anagram of David Harsent) and ‘Duo-Bog’, a parody written by Dale under the pseudonym of Patter Dull. Two typed drafts of each. Published in Agenda, vol. 9, no. 1 (Winter 1971).
• ‘Just a Swing at Everyone: Mongolia’, written under the pseudonym Rue Fuller, being a parody of Roy Fuller’s ‘Magnolia’. Photocopy from Agenda, vol. 9, no. 4/vol. 10, no. 1 (Autumn 1971/Winter 1972).
• ‘Echo Sounder’, ‘After-Image’ and ‘Dream’. In The Review, no. 29/30. (Spring/Summer 1972). ‘Echo Sounder’ published in Eight by Five (Presteigne: Rack Press, 2007).
• ‘Indelible’ and ‘Gifts’. Extract from Meridian, vol. 1, no. 3 (Spring 1974). ‘Gifts’ published in Edge to Edge.
• ‘View’ and ‘Glimpses’. Extract from Delta, no. 54 (1975). Published in One Another.
• ‘Aubade’. Extract from Poetry South East, no. 1 ([1976]). Published in One Another.
• ‘Lullaby’. Extract from Poetry Review, vol. 68, no. 4 (1979).
• 'Last Wishes’. Extract from Cumberland Poetry Review, vol. 2, no. 1 (Winter 1982). Published in Too Much of Water.
• ‘Sleep’. In How very Different the Tastes: a Selection of British Poetry, 1970-1981, selected and edited by Ben Ball (Amsterdam: Stichting Workshop Amsterdam School Press, 1982). Published in Mortal Fire.
• ‘Shar’. Extract from Poetry Durham, no. 10 (Summer 1985).
• ‘The Line’. In Footnotes Magazine, no. 3 (1987). Published in Earth Light.
• ‘Correspondances’. Typewritten reprint of poem dedicated to Wally Kaufman, and first published in Agenda, vol. 24, no. 1 (Spring 1986). Published in Earth Light as ‘Correspondences’.
• ‘Upland’, and an editorial. Extract from Agenda, Scripsi Supplement, vol. 23, no. 4 (1987), forming vol. 4, no. 4 of Scripsi. Published in Earth Light.
• ‘Minutiae’ and ‘The Ford’. Extract from Acumen, no. 7 (Apr 1988).
• Three poems: ‘Sunken Path’, ‘Venues’ and ‘Goldenrod’. Extract from Prospice, no. 25 (1988). ‘Sunken path’ and ‘Goldenrod’ published in Earth Light.
• Two poems: ‘Crane’s Bill’ and ‘Song’, also a compilation of quotations on rhythm. Extract from Outposts, no. 161 (Summer 1989). ‘Crane’s bill’ published in Earth Light.