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Time and Tide Reviews
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1961
Press cuttings of 2 book reviews by Jon Silkin for 'Time and Tide' magazine. Includes a review of poetry collections by G. Hough and I.C. Smith (20 April 1961); and a review of poetry collections by R...
Drafts of The Re-Ordering of the Stones
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1960-1961
Two clean typescript drafts of the collection 'The Re-Ordering of the Stones', including title and contents pages. One draft is dated in ms to 1960-1961 in the hand of Ella Pybus.
Letters to Jon Silkin
c.1960 - 14 September 1964
1 ts circular concerning the Joseph Cowen Memorial Prizes for 1960-1961; and 1 ts letter from Roger Sharrock of the School of English at the University of Durham inviting Silkin to speak at a weekend ...
Letters to Jon Silkin
5 April 1961 - 3 February 1962
3 typescript letters and 2 ms letters from Clive Jordan, editor of the student magazine 'Oxford Opinion,' to Jon Silkin. Letter dated 13 April 1961 accompanied by a copy letter from Jordan to the poet...
Bulletin
Poetry Book Society
December 1961
2 copies of the 'Poetry Book Society Bulletin' no. 31 (December 1961), including an article by Peter Redgrove on his 'The Nature of Cold Weather', and Jon Silkin's poem 'To My Friends' (later publishe...
The Poetry of Jon Silkin
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)
c.1961-1962
This file contains items relating to Geoffrey Hill's essay, 'The Poetry of Jon Silkin', written shortly after the publication of 'The Re-Ordering of the Stones' (1961). Includes a corrected carbon-cop...
Letters to and from Jon Silkin
29 November 1953 - 31 December 1980
3 typescript letters from Ewart Milne to Jon Silkin; 4 carbon copy ts letters from Silkin to Milne. The file also contains an autographed ts of Milne's poem 'The Whitman Grasses,' which was included i...
Corrections and Preliminaries
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1961
Typescript letter from Norah Smallwood (Chatto & Windus) regarding Silkin's corrected proofs for 'The Re-Ordering of the Stones' (13 July 1961); ts and ms draft preliminaries, including contents page ...
Poems and Drafts (3)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1958-1961
Typescript and carbon copy poems and drafts published in 'The Re-Ordering of the Stones,'including all but 2 of the poems that appear in the published work. Some of the poems are autographed; some of ...
Selected Poems (1980)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1979-1983
Papers relating to the collection 'Selected Poems', published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1980. The collection included poems from 'The Peaceable Kingdom' (1954), 'The Two Freedoms' (1958), 'The Re-O...
Anglo-Jewish Writers Appeal
1961-1963
Papers relating to the Anglo-Jewish Writers Appeal for Equal Rights for Soviet Jews. Includes a circular ts letter from Emanuel Litvinoff (8 September 1961), accompanied by a copy of a letters sent on...
Selected Poems (1988)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1987-1994
Papers relating to the collection 'Selected Poems', published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1988. The collection includes poems from 'The Peaceable Kingdom' (1954), 'The Two Freedoms' (1958), 'The Re-O...