Poem Drafts
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Poem Drafts
Classmark: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/2/2/2
Creator(s): Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Date(s): February 1966 - October 1967
Size and medium: 2 files
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18189
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
These files contain 2 envelopes of manuscript and typescript poem drafts (213 ff), including poems later published in collections including 'My Son' (1966) and 'The Rain-Giver' (1972). Includes the following:
- Constant companion, always waiting for me to wake ...
- Your Apple
- The Rain-Giver
- Wounded hero in shocking pink pyjamas ...
- Shapes
- Imprisoned
- The tale is simply told ...
- My Son: Five Poems
- Tonight the moon's a great lobe ...
- Part of a Journey
- The Ark
- Music Lesson on a Summer Evening
- The year is drained of passion now ...
- Autumn
- Death of a Dream
- I loll by the fire ...
- The Timeless Journey
- Any Poet
- Heart's Music
- Awakening
- Recovering
- The Other
- On reading Trawl by B.S. Johnson
- Moon Child
- Suicide
- Friend/Poor Robert
- Next to the churchyard a yard of asphalt ...
- The Way Home
- Dichotomy
- New moon, hiding ...
- Song For a Death
- A boy, I heaped the fire with salt ...
- Digging a Hole
- Pasternak's Grave, Peredelkina(see also Brotherton Collection MS 20c Crossley-Holland/2/2/3)
- Our Love's
- Epithalamium
- At the Florist's
- The Wall of an Estate in North Norfolk Speaks
- Kites
- A Christmas Present for George Macbeth
- Spring Tide, Burnham-Overy-Staithe
- Portrait
- Engagement Ring
- The Gun Hills Revisited
- Childhood
- Notes on a Room
- Waiting for Li-Po
- I've learnt little: judge nothing
- Above all I've wished you friends ...
- The creeks branch inland ...
- We should mourn for trees ...
- Sober as a Judge.
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