Notebook 53A
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Notebook 53A
Classmark: BC MS 20c Redgrove/2/5
Creator(s): Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)
Date(s): c.1974
Size and medium: 1 green and maroon bound notebook
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18624
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
This notebook contains photographs, clippings of pictures and picture postcards with typescript and manuscript poems, prose and plays, often with annotations by the author. Some of the imagery in the photographs is replicated in the poems; snow is a theme of this notebook. Some are labelled with handwritten notes of where items were published, or submitted for publication.The notebook contains the following poems:
- Hoopsa, Hoopsa, Boyso (fol. 1)
- The snow walking down in petals, like a cylindrical ... (fol. 4; 194; untitled prose, apparently a version of the poemThe Stains which can be found in Notebook 53).
- Untitled prose (fol. 7, concerning a hotel and mother).
- Hoopsa! Hoopsa! Boyso! (fol. 10-16).
- Untitled prose (fol. 17-20, concerning women in a village).
- Untitled prose (fol. 20, about corn goddesses).
- Untitled prose (fol. 21, concerning writing tourist brochures).
- Teaky Leaves (fol. 22).
- Discovery at the Indian Excavation (fol. 24).
- The God of Glass (fol. 26-111; including draft synopsis, script and addenda written for the BBC, 10 June 1974. See also Notebook 53 and the typescript of The Glass Cottage).
- The hairless face an organ of exquisite mobility... (fol. 112. Untitled poem).
- The swollen torrents rushing down the mountainside... (fol. 113. Untitled prose).
- Her tasty house ... (fol. 114. Untitled poem).
- Wherever the blood-drops fell they turned into flint-stones... (fol. 116. Untitled poem).
- The dead leaves so bleached and white they look like blossom... (fol. 119. Untitled prose).
- Workings and research notes for poems (fol. 122-134).
- Rumi (fol. 134).
- Voyage (fol. 135).
- In the Indian Museum (fol. 136).
- To P. Porter (fol. 137).
- Workings and research notes for poems (fol. 138-141).
- Dog University: A Prospectus (fol. 142; 170; 178; 182-183. See also Notebook 53 ).
- I seize his shadow and draw him in... (fol. 143. Untitled poem).
- Snowmanshit (fol. 144-149; 158. See also Notebook 53).
- The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist (fol. 151. See also Notebook 53).
- Sticks and Bones (fol. 152-153).
- The Ghostly Moon Tree (fol. 156).
- Winter Flies (fol. 176; 259).
- Goddog-doggod, the master-dog the double lycanthrope, or studies... (fol. 180-181.Untitled poem).
- Cold Northern JesusSee also Notebook 51 ).
- Story of A Man Who Wakes Up in Various Places (fol. 193).
- Untitled prose including snow imagery and thoughts concerning eastern and western religion and mythology (fol. 197-211).
- The Barbers (fol. 212-214).
- At the end of the thaw, on the green stretches... (fol. 216. Untitled poem).
- The Planetarium in his Mouth (fol. 217).
- Fierce American mice... (fol. 218. Untitled poem).
- Workings for letter to Ted Hughe, recording Redgrove's feelings about his time spent at Colgate University (fol. 220-221).
- Notes on dreams (fol. 223-251).
- The Mothballs in the Radio Set? (fol. 252).
- Untitled prose concerned with dreams (fol. 253).
- Funeral (Prose and dream sequence. Fol. 254-258).
- Untitled prose (fol. 260l; thoughts during meditation about a Maori).
- Voyage (fol. 261).
- The dead cicadas staring at nothing... (fol. 262).
- The Wake of Admiral Pfoundes (fol. 264).
- Untitled prose (fol. 265; concerning the ghosts of Sylvia Plath, a woman called Jannice and their inspirational qualities).
- Lobsters at Penzance (fol. 268).
- The Fishes Swimming Their Little Masks (fol. 269).
- Admiral Pfoundes andAdmiral Pfoundes Dead Wedding (Funeral) (fol. 270-271. Rhythmic prose).
- Prints From An Exhibition (Japanese) (fol. 272-274).
- The story of the solitary house... (fol. 275. Untitled prose).
- Pictures From a Shirtmaker's Apprentice (fol. 276-277; 279-281).
- Untitled prose (fol. 278; dream imagery).
- Aesculapian Notes (fol. 283-288; published in pamphlet form as Aesculapian Notes(1975)).
- Untitled prose (fol. 289; dream diary entry).
- My message darted between the talons... (fol. 290. Untitled poem).
- Sipping His Bend (fol. 291).
- Untitled prose (fol. 291; dream imagery).
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