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Add MS 89363/2/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004296917
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004296853
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156352877.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89363/2/1
- Title:
- D. M. Thomas: Word-processed typescripts of poems
- Scope & Content:
-
Word-processed typescript drafts of poems written by D. M. Thomas in the 1990s and early 2000s:
- 'Email Fantasies'
- 'Villanelle'
- 'Sonnets for LL'
- 'Lives'
- 'Death Merchant'
- 'Sunday Morning at Tesco' (three versions)
- 'Woman in a Garter belt'
- 'Collected' (pastiche of 'An Arundel Tomb' by Philip Larkin)
- 'Silent Night Haiku'
- 'Intimacy'
- 'The Flood'
- 'www.friendsreunited.com'
- 'Poetry Reading'
- 'Don Juan Reflects'
- 'Birthday Poem for Victoria'
- 'Artist and Model'
- A poem beginning 'Words can also disconcert, like the new bridge...'
- 'Instead of the Clairvoyant'
- 'Dream Scene 2'
- 'Dream scene 3'
- 'Dream Scene 4'
- 'Coitus Interruptus'
- 'Re-Making Brief Encounter'
- 'Elegy for a Movie Producer'
- 'Twilight'
- 'Language'
- 'Tolstoy's Birthday'
- 'Dream Scene 11'
- 'Dream Scene 8'
- 'Dream Scene'
- 'Sestinas for Tina'.
The contents of this file were originally held in a folder labelled, 'Unpublished ['almost all' added] or early drafts of pub. Poems, c. 1990'. The folder also carried the older titles 'Redundancy' and 'Bleak Hotel' (both crossed out).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004296853
036-004296916
040-004296917 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89363 : D. M. Thomas Archive
Add MS 89363/2 : D. M. Thomas: Poetry and translations
Add MS 89363/2/1 : D. M. Thomas: Word-processed typescripts of poems - Hierarchy:
- 032-004296853[0002]/036-004296916[0001]/040-004296917
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89363
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 62 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1985
- End Date:
- 2007
- Date Range:
- c 1990-c 2002
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former Internal References:
- Deposit 11079
Deposit 11079, Box 5, file 3, part 1 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)