Poem Drafts
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Poem Drafts
Classmark: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/2/2/10
Creator(s): Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Date(s): 1990-1995
Size and medium: 4 files
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18197
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
These files contain manuscript and typescript poem drafts (334 ff.), including poems published in 'The Language of Yes' (1996). The original folder in which the drafts were held appears to have been marked 'up to completion of 'The Language of Yes.'
' Includes the following:
- In the World Tree
- Morning Gift
- Unseeing
- The Fox and the Poet
- Portrait of a Daughter
- Pearls and Diamonds
- The Viking Field
- Of Clay and Syllables and Air
- First Promises
- Taverna Talk
- White Noise
- Quick, Comma!
- In the Green Cloister
- Watercolour
- This Resolution
- Blue and Rising
- From the Hall of the Autumn Prince
- Hey, God!
- Notes on a Field Map
- Anasazi Women (includes of comments on the poem by Keith Harrison)
- Of Moon and Translation
- Scenes from Cathedral Life
- A Prayer for Jade
- In Old Age
- Pouf!
- Coin
- East, West
- Footsore, in Search of a Chinese Cellist
- Middle-Aged Lovers
- Spirit-Garden
- Moment
- Still Life: Eleanor with Fieldflowers
- There was a time when we were halfway reconciled ...
- Light Weather
- Advent Carols (for Eleanor)
- Out to it
- A Student at Oxford
- Breaks out of its brown paper ...
- Prayer for my Daughters
- The Sun Stands Still
- Instead of an Elegy
- Theatricals
- In Latter Days
- Heavy weather in Hintertux
- Manifestations
- Spring
- Walking on Water
- The German Lepidopterist
- Time is, Time was, Time's Past
- The World Inside the World
- Twelfth Night Wind
- The Second Attendant
- The Aldeburgh Band
- Alfred in the Alps
- To Lighten the Darkness
- Making Lobe
- Song for my Parents
- Whisht!
- Crystal Ball
- Measure
- Young Girl
- Points of Departure
- Phillipi Fields
- Alfred Potato
- The Word
- In the Beginning
- One End of Singing
- Grit and Blood
- Counting her Steps
- Leaf-Girl
- The Old Monk: Valle Crucis
- Inscription for Janet Poynton's copy of East Anglian Poems
- Under the sky's white wing ...
- Ghosting and Last Days (with sheet of comments by Keith Harrison on three of Crossley-Holland's poems)
- Airmail
- Acorns! Another volley! ...
- A Year and a Day
- Your Name
- Valentine
- Love-Lights
- Like any divided country, we long ...
- I am the man who made a woman out of flowers ...
- One Woman, One Man
- Word
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