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Reviews of Out of Battle (1)

1972-1981

Press cuttings and photocopies of reviews of 'Out of Battle.' Includes reviews by Vernon Scannell ('New Statesman,' 30 June 1972), Geoffrey Grigson ('Country Life,' 13 July 1972), Sarah Matthews ('Dai...

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Reviews and Criticism

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1965-1972

This file contains photocopies and press-cuttings of reviews and criticism of Silkin's work, focussing mainly on the collection 'Amana Grass'. Includes reviews and criticism of the collection and indi...

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Response to a Review

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1972

Carbon copy of a typescript letter from Jon Silkin to the Editor of 'Outposts' magazine, in response to a review of 'Amana Grass' by Anne Tibble ( 'Outposts' 92, spring 1972). The letter discusses the...

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Oxford University Press Edition

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959-1981

Papers relating to 'Out of Battle' as published by Oxford University Press in 1972 and 1978. Includes a set of index cards recording themes and bibliographic details, ms and typescript notes, extensiv...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (5)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1969-1973

Typescript drafts of the following poems: - Beneath the hedgerows, the songbirds are dead ... (dated January 1972 and marked up in ms for printing) - The Clay Image - Lovers - That bright morning...

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Belief and Truth in the Poetry of Wilfred Owen

1972-1978

Bound copy of Guido Casale's M.A. thesis, 'Belief and Truth in the Poetry of Wilfred Owen,' submitted to the University College of North Wales, Bangor, May 1972. Inserted in the front of the thesis is...

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Killhope Wheel

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

ca.

Papers relating to the publication of 'Killhope Wheel.' Includes page proofs of the poems marked up in ms for the printer in red pen and pencil, and with page numbers 26-39 in pencil in the top right ...

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Out of Battle

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959-1997

Papers relating to Silkin's critical work on the poetry of the First World War, 'Out of Battle.'Silkin states in the Preface to 'Out of Battle' that he started work on the volume in 1959, the year of ...

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Poem Drafts (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1972-1974

Typescript and ms drafts of poems published in 'The Principle of Water'. The poems include: - A Strand from Caedmon - The bird is ligamented ... - A Shetland Poem - Three Shetland Poems - Some W...

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Poems in Periodicals, Etc.: 1970s

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1970-1979

This file contains one copy of 'Lines Review,' no. 33 (July 1970) with Silkin's poems 'Reclaimed Area,' 'Jaffa, and Other Places,' 'Bull-God'and 'Five Cemetery Poems;' two copies of 'Stand,' v. 16, ...

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Ultime Thule Papers

1971-1976

This series comprises a single file of papers relating to the Ultima Thule Bookshop in Newcastle, a venture established by Tom Pickard, Tony Jackson and Jon Silkin. Includes copies of accounts for Mar...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

13 October 1954 - 2 April 1990

79 typescript letters, 5 ms letters and 2 ms postcards from various correspondents at publishers Chatto & Windus to Jon Silkin; and 29 carbon copy letters from Silkin to various at Chatto & Windus. No...

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