Notebook 51
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Notebook 51
Classmark: BC MS 20c Redgrove/2/3
Creator(s): Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)
Date(s): 1974
Size and medium: 1 red bound notebook
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18622
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
This notebook contains photographs and typescript and manuscript poems, often with annotations by the author. Some are labelled with ms notes on where items were published or submitted.The contents are as follows:
- Hi-Jack or Bloodship (fol. 1-5).
- Tales in Idleness (fol. 6-7).
- Window Hours (fol. 8).
- Green-Gowned People(fol. 8-10).
- Untitled workings for poems (fol. 10-14).
- Singing and Dying and Being (fol. 15).
- Untitled workings for poems (fol. 17-23).
- The Moon is a Door (A Dream of Sylvia Plath/Poor Sylvia) (fol. 24-26).
- The Lord Clown (fol. 27-28).
- What the Lake is Doing? (fol. 29).
- The Pig of the Sea(fol. 30).
- This Cornish Passage (fol. 32, published in The Hudson Review, Autumn 1974).
- From Every Chink of the Ark (fol. 32, published in bothThe Hudson Review Autumn 1974; and From Every Chink of the Ark(1977)).
- From the Answers to Job (fol. 34-35, published in The Hudson Review Autumn 1974; From Every Chink of the Ark(1977); and The Moon Disposes (1987)).
- Plain Poems of Change in February (fol. 35-36, published in The Hudson Review, Autumn 1974).
- The Blood of Babies (fol. 37).
- Untitled workings for poems (fol. 38-40).
- Mr. Silverhouse's Revolution (HI-JACK)(fol. 41).
- Presidents (fol. 42-46).
- Untitled workings for poems (fol. 46-51).
- Window Hours(fol. 51-52).
- Untitled workings for poems (fol. 53).
- Amazing Perfume Offer(fol. 54. See also fol. 132 for another version of the same poem).
- Untitled workings for poems (fol. 55-58).
- It's No Pain (fol. 59-64).
- The Little Professor(fol. 65-68. See also fol. 120, 149 and Notebook 53 ).
- Notes and Squeals (fol. 71. See also fol. 119).
- Hard-Beaked Toymakers(fol. 72. See also fol. 118).
- The House-Half; The Half- House(fol. 74-77. See also fol. 117).
- The Starwell(fol. 78. See also fol. 116).
- The Caterpillar and the Transformer(fol. 79. See also fol. 115; marked by Redgrove as accepted by Gallery, 7 November 1974).
- Serious Readers (fol. 82).
- Doll-Wedding (fol. 84).
- The Doctor of the Window (fol. 86).
- Insects Had Their Choice and Became Insects (fol. 87).
- Baby Department/Gospel of Thomas(fol. 88. See also fol. 120 and Notebook 53 ).
- Cicada-Singing(fol. 89. See also fol. 108).
- Untitled workings for poem (fol. 90-93).
- The Breathing-Place of Saints (fol. 95. See also Notebook 53 . This was published in Encounter, September 1975, as The Breathing-Place).
- Untitled workings (fol. 96-98).
- The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist (fol. 100-101. See also Notebook 53 ).
- Untitled workings for a poem (fol. 102-103).
- Cold Northern Jesus (fol. 104).
- The Good and the Evil: the Clothed and Unclothed (fol. 105-106).
- Insects Had Their Choice and Became Insects (fol. 110. See also fol. 87).
- The Doctrine of the Window(fol. 111).
- Cold Northern Jesus(fol. 112. See also fol. 104).
- Doll-Wedding (fol. 113. See also fol. 84).
- Serious Readers (fol. 114. See also fol. 82. Published in From Every Chink of the Ark (1977) and The Moon Disposes (1987), and accepted by New Statesman, May 1975).
- Serious Readers(fol. 114. See also fol. 82).
- The Caterpillar and the Transformer (fol. 115. See also fol. 79).
- Starwell(fol. 116. See also fol. 78).
- The Half-House(fol. 117. See also fol. 74).
- Hard Beaked Toymakers(fol. 118. See also fol. 72).
- Notes and Squeals(fol. 119. See also fol. 71).
- The Little Professor (fol. 120-121. See also fols. 65 and 109).
- Three Establishment Poems (fol. 123-124).
- It's No Pain (fol. 125-128. See also fol. 59).
- Untitled workings for a poem (fol. 131).
- Amazing Perfume Offer (fol. 132-133. See also fol. 54).
- The Lovers (fol. 134).
- Untitled workings for a poem (fol. 135-137).
- Water-gongs(fol. 139).
- The Dry Bird's Song(fol. 139).
- A mirror of steel and a mirror of water... (fol. 140).
- To Those Who Cannot Catch the Disease (fol. 141. See also Notebook 53 ).
- Untitled workings for a poem (fol. 142).
- Dogs (fol. 143-145).
- Persephone Poem (fol. 146. This includes workings for the poem Persephone Wrapped in Appleskin, also found in Notebook 53).
- Untitled workings for a poem (fol. 147).
- Governor Part of Little Professor for Michael Finn (fol. 149).
- Canine Courses(fol. 150-152).
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