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Brotherton Collection34
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italian poetry 20th century translations into english5
interviews2
poetry readings2
proofs (printing)2
authors and publishers1
awards1
correspondence1
documentary films1
italian poetry 20th century1
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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)30
Mitchell, Adrian (1932-2008)1
Poetry Book Society1

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Nature With Man

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1956-1978

Papers relating to the collection 'Nature With Man', including typescript and ms poems and drafts; and papers relating to the publication of Silkin's 'Flower Poems' by Northern House.The poems in 'Nat...

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Poems for Nature With Man

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1964-1965

Largely clean typescripts and carbon copies of poems for the collection 'Nature With Man', and the note to the Flower Poems, with some ms corrections. The tss have page numbers 1-49 added in ms.

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Drafts for Nature With Man

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1964-1965

Clean typescript and carbon copy drafts for 'Nature With Man', including title and contents pages, 19 poems and notes to the Flower Poems. In addition, the file holds a second ts of the poem 'Nature W...

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Proof Copies of Nature With Man

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1965

2 proof copies of 'Nature With Man,' both with a small number of ms corrections in Jon Silkin's hand.

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Poem Drafts (4)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1964-1965

Ms notes towards acknowledgements for poems from the collection 'Nature With Man' published or broadcast elsewhere; annotated and corrected typescript drafts and carbon copies of the poems 'Nature Wit...

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Poems in the Press

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

early 1960s

Poems from the collection 'Nature With Man' as published in newspapers and/or periodicals. Includes a proof (?) of 'Defence', and two sets of pages extracted from an unidentified publication with the ...

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Photocopied Poems

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

late 1960s

Photocopies of poems taken from 'Nature With Man' as published. Includes 'Flatfish' (with ms correction), 'Lilies of the Valley', 'A Daisy' and 'The Violet'.

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Proofs and Poems

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1965-1966

Incomplete proof of 'Poems New and Selected', marked up for the printer, including page numbers. Includes 'Snow Drop', and poems from 'The Peaceable Kingdom', 'The Two Freedoms', 'The Re-Ordering of t...

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Poem Drafts (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1956-1962

Ms and typescript drafts of 14 poems published in the collection 'Nature With Man', and Silkin's ms draft notes for the contents of the collection. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's occasional re-u...

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Drafts, Workings, Fragments

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

early 1960s

Ms drafts and workings, and typescript fragments. These items were originally housed in a file labelled 'Nature With Man' in Silkin's hand. The fragments include part of 'Something Has Been Teased Fro...

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Prizes

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1966

Back cover(?) of Faber Books catalogue(?) for 1966. The inside cover has a statement on the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, including Silkin winning the prize in 1966 for 'Nature With Man'.

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Ungaretti Translations

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1963

Ms and typescript drafts of 5 poems by Ungaretti, later published in 'Nature With Man'. The translations are accompanied by an ms note on Ungaretti in Silkin's hand, written on the verso of a letter a...

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