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Record Id:

040-002891214

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002354004

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023935730.0x000001

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 88998/6/2

Title:

Lee Harwood: Fair copies ('Poems nos. 1-103')

Scope & Content:

Beginning a numbered chronological sequence of fair copy poems (and other occasional texts) retained in springback binders. Some poems are dated, and details of publication are recorded by Harwood where applicable. Occasionally a poem has been typed twice (retaining the same number).

Written on the inside front cover: 'Lee Harwood. Poems nos. 1-103. Jan./Feb. 1963 - 4 June '65.'

In addition, the following material is loosely inserted:

Inserted inside front cover: 'Happypoems by Lee Harwood'. Privately produced by the author in a limited edition of 5 copies, January 1964. Copy no. 2. Bound by two central wire staples. Comprises the following poems: 'poem for a girl'; 'rain falling...'; '4 Haiku for March 1961'; 'train ride'; 'rain on the city...'; 'you again'; 'purple rain'; 'january 1963'; 'I'm free now'; 'to my wife'; 'Extracts'; 'I lie in...'; and 'poem for jenny'.
Inserted inside front cover: 'Cow-Boy by Vincente Huidobro' (1 sheet, copied from Dada 3, 1918).
'Tzara is dead' by Harwood. Typed poem (3 sheets), dated 16/17 January 1964, and inserted in the sequence of numbered poems at this date as poem [39].

Numbered sequence with the following titles (or first lines):

(1). 'Discussion Group'.
(2). 'women are so beautiful'.
(3). 'March 1963'.
(4). 'Pitiful hallo'
(5). 'My melodrama'.
(6). 'haiku'.
(7). 'first leaves'.
(8). 'last leaves'.
(9). 'January 1963'.
(10). 'It's spring'.
(11). 'Song - 1st verse'.
(12). 'May will come'.
(13). 'the Crab'.
(14). 'in my zoo cage'.
(15). 'trees outside my window'.
(16). 'white apple tree blossom'
(17). 'my skull'.
(18). 'God rearing his head in the clouds'.
(19). 'London'.
(20). 'to Nick'.
(21). 'Poem for Dave'.
(22). 'tree' [Automatic Poem].
(23). 'Poem for R. and F.'
(24). 'August 5. 1963.'
(25). 'Don't interrupt'.
(26). 'Assassination'.
(27). 'Extracts'.
(24-27). 'Assassination in 5 easy stages' [combining 24-27 in a single text].
(28). 'to my wife'.
(29). 'poem for a girl'.
(30). 'Jesus, I'd like to be a demolition worker'.
(31). 'Newspaper Survey' (Paris, November 1963).
(32). 'I'm free now'.
(33). 'Extract from - Requiem'.
(34). 'bisexuals of the world UNITE'.
(35). 'poem for Jenny'.
(36). 'you again' (poem struck-through - 'see 37').
(37). 'you again'.
(38). 'a kosher skipping song'.
[39] 'Tzara is Dead' loosely inserted (3 sheets).
(40). 'to Bal and Den'.
(41). 'It is so strange'.
(42). 'April'.
(43). 'poem for jenny'.
(44). 'Space Age 64'.
(45). 'h.64'.
(46). 'm.2.'
(47). 'm.3.'
(48). 'for Denise'.
(49). 'poem for harry'.
(50). 'rain is falling'.
[Without number]. Review by Harwood of Kirby Congdon, Iron Ark (Interim Books), published in Poetmeat 5, June 1964.
(51). 'without you'.
(52). 'Cable Street' (marked '1st version').
(53). 'Harry'.
(54). 'A beginning'.
(55). 'The Magic Room'.
(56). '2 fun-poems'.
(57). 'another poem for jenny and against our enemies'.
(58). 'Harry you're miles away, and next to me'.
(59). 'Woodside Beach'.
(60). 'sciencefic / for jenny'.
(61). 'fun-poem 3'.
(62). 'eyed by a Finnish au-pair girl'.
(63). 'without you..... jenny'.
(64). 'when I see you again'.
(65). 'poem for Roger Jones'.
(66). 'A planet explodes / to Tristan Tzara'.
(67). 'poem for Michel Couturier'.
(68). 'Mechanicicic'.
(69). 'spacevoyage'.
(70). 'Zoo poem'.
(71). 'COMPUTER X 64 ATOMIC POEM'.
(72). 'Contact'.
(73). 'The black angel'.
(74). 'angel dissolving'.
(75). 'angel space vacant'.
(75½). 'working at Whitakers almanack as a clerk. Nov/Dec 1964'.
(76A). 'PRISON-TAP'.
(76B). 'I am a family man'.
(76C). '(title illegible)'.
(77). 'grope 20 nov '64'.
[There is no poem numbered 78.]
(79). 'Over seas and far away....'
(80). 'This morning'.
(81). 'standing quite still'.
(82). 'In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen'.
(83). 'Jakob Makob'.
(84). 'quiet love song'.
(85). 'lunch poem / to Frank O'Hara'.
(86). 'to/for Tristan Tzara (Rosenstock) / a letter/message/report'. (6 sheets, dated March 1965.)
(87). 'angel rustling in the dry ditch'.
(88). 'for Harry'.
(89). 'I part your hair and whisper in your ear'.
(90A). 'non-existant "you". I talk to myself in the streets. & it's raining.'
(90B). 'non-existant "you". I talk to myself in the streets. & it's raining.'
(91). 'poem for Chris Torrance'.
(92). 'for Allen G.' (9 May 1965.)
(93). 'to Allen G. 9th May 1965'.
(94). 'FOR YOU ARE KING OF THE MAY / for A.G.'
(95). 'To P.M. [Paul Matthews].
(96). 'brighton. night 14 may 65'.
(97). 'lamb of the lord'.
(98). 'on gaining a friend & not loosing [sic] a lover'.
(99). Journal. 20 may 65'.
[Without number.] Review by Harwood of Harry Guest, A different darkness (Outposts Publications), published in Poetmeat. Review dated 21 May 1965.
(100). '"New York will welcome me"'.
(101). 'black curtains / thrilling round your throat'.
(102). 'oh John forget your fear'.
(103). 'message for John / & birthday poem for Allen'.

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002354004
036-002891196
040-002891214

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Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/6 : Lee Harwood: Poetry and Occasional Prose (Fair Copies)

Add MS 88998/6/2 : Lee Harwood: Fair copies ('Poems nos. 1-103')

Hierarchy:

032-002354004[0007]/036-002891196[0002]/040-002891214

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 file

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1963

End Date:

1965

Date Range:

1963-1965

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Physical Characteristics:

Loose sheets retained in spring back binder (black). 290 x 240 mm.

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