William Price Turner: Poems
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: William Price Turner: Poems
Classmark: MS 1720/2/T36
Creator(s): William P. Turner
Date(s): [c.1964-1966]
Size and medium: 1 x 5 inch (12.5 cm) open reel spool of ¼ inch polyester audio tape. Duration: 24.14 minutes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18590
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry
Description
Audio recording made for the Leeds Poetry Room of William Price Turner (Gregory Fellow in Poetry, 1960-1962) reading poems from his collections 'The Rudiment of an Eye' (1955) 'The Flying Corset' (1961) and 'Fables from Life' (1966). Each poem is preceded by a title announcement. The poems read include:
- Elegy for Seven Teeth
- Idealist
- Snowman
- The Kilroy Villanelles
- A Problem for Critics
- Getting One's Bearings
- On Woman and Other Phenomena
- Storm Wrack
- Incident in City Street
- Homely Accommodation, Suit Gent
- Train of Thought
- Didacticism as a Kind of Prison
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Physical and technical conditions
Playback speed: 3¾ ips.