Notebook 53
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Notebook 53
Classmark: BC MS 20c Redgrove/2/4
Creator(s): Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)
Date(s): 1974
Size and medium: 1 green and maroon bound notebook
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18623
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
This notebook contains photographs, clippings of pictures and picture postcards and typescript and manuscript poems and plays, often with annotations by the author. The photographs appear to be of themes replicated in the poems; snow is a dominant theme. Some poems are labelled with handwritten notes of where items were published, or submitted. Redgrove dates the book at the beginning '16 November 1974.'The notebook contains the following poems:
- From the Questions To Mary (fol. 1, published in Sons of my Skin (1975)).
- Play, Here's Another Fine Womb You've Got Me Into (fol. 3-7).
- To Those Who Cannot Catch The Disease (For Stuart Wilson) (fol. 8-13. See also Notebook 51 ).
- Against Kung Fu: Pentecostal Essay with Notes 1974 (fol. 15-19).
- Laudon, City of the Moon(fol. 20, written for the wall of the Whitechapel Gallery's exhibition, The City of London).
- Moonbeast in Sunshine (fol. 22).
- A Twelvemonth (fol. 24-25, published in From Every Chink of the Ark (1977) and The Moon Disposes (1987)).
- The Skin (For Mike Smith) (fol. 27).
- Approach to the Mountain(fol. 28).
- Demonstration of the Two Mirrors(fol. 30).
- Somebody (fol. 31).
- These Lovers (fol.33).
- Orison of the Skin(fol. 35).
- Amazing Perfume Offer (fol. 37. See also Notebook 51 ).
- The Breathing-Place (fol. 39. See also Notebook 51 . Published in Encounter, September 1975).
- Pictures from an Ecclesiastical Furnisher's (fol. 40-48; 50-53, published in Stand, January 1975).
- Persephone Wrapped in Appleskin (fol. 49)
- The Little Professor/Baby Department (fol. 54-61. See also Notebook 51 ).
- The God of Glass(fol. 63-235; radio play commissioned by the BBC (1974); first broadcast 31 July 1977; winner of Imperial Tobacco Award for Radio Drama 1978. See also Notebook 53A and The Glass Cottage ).
- The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist(fol. 236. Published in From Every Chink of the Ark (1977) and The Moon Disposes (1987)).
- Snowmanshit/The Six-Armed Ice-Device (fol. 237-244).
- Dog Prospectus(fol. 245-246. Published in Encounter, July 1975).
- The Barbers (fol. 248-254).
- The Meditation (fol. 256).
- The Stains (fol. 259).
- Headswop (fol. 260-264).
- Press cutting of the poemOn Losing One's Black Dog(fol. 265-267; published in Delta no. 53 (1975), From Every Chink of the Ark (1977) and The Moon Disposes (1987)).
- The Tutorial (fol. 268-269; with cutting of the poem from the London Magazine, (1975)).
- Tree of Swords (fol. 270).
- Press cutting of the poemA Philosophy in Welshese(fol. 271; from Matrix 6 (Autumn 1974); also published in Sons of my Skin (1975) and The Moon Disposes (1987)).
- Press cutting of the poemOld Simon Stands on His Style.(fol. 272-273; from Last Fly (Summer 1975)).
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