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James Kirkup: Poems

Archive Series: MS 1720/2/T19

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Type of record: Archive

Title: James Kirkup: Poems

Level: Series

Classmark: MS 1720/2/T19

Creator(s): Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

Date(s): c.1960

Size and medium: 1 x 5¾ inch (14.5 cm) open reel spool of ¼ inch polyester audio tape. Duration: 67.18 minutes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18574

Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry

Description

Audio recording made by the British Council of James Kirkup (Gregory Fellow in Poetry, 1950-1952) reading poems from his collections 'A Correct Compassion' (1952), 'A Spring Journey' (1954), 'The Descent into the Cave' (1957) and 'The Prodigal Son' (1959). Each poem is preceded by a title announcement. The poems include:

- [Side 1]

- Waiting

- A House in Summer

- It's My Turn Now

- Absent Summer

- The Evil Eye

- All Souls Morning

- Public Holiday

- The Body Builder

- The Insomniac to the Sleeper

- Festival Taurino: Ciudad Rodrigo

- The Prodigal Son

- For the Record

- Another Season

- Light

- Camera Obscura

- The Astronaut

- [Side 2]

- Machina Speculatrix

- To An Old Lady Asleep at a Poetry Reading

- Love in a Space Suit

- Interior with Figures

- Ghosts, Fire, Water

- Choric Stanzas

- The Old Trousers

- The Convenience

- The Drain

- The Kitchen Sink

- A Correct Compassion

- Perpetuum Mobile: The Broken Record.

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Playback speed: 3¾ ips.

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