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Notebook 50: Speech! Speech!

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1998

Black hardback A5 notebook with red spine; ms label on front cover '19: Work in Progress 26-7-98 - 27-11-98 - Drafts & Jottings'. The notebook is dated in ms on the inside front cover '26.7.98 (Newton...

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Notebook 8: Nigeria Poems and Notes

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1967

White and green spiral-bound notebook, with ms title on front cover 'Nigeria: Poems & Notes. January 2nd 1967 - March 28th 1967.' The pages of the notebook are numbered in ms pp. 7-26, pp. 29-46, pp. ...

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Notebook 18

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

Teaching and poetry notebook with teaching notes on Jacobeans and Jacobean drama and William Wordsworth. It contains the following: - A timetable for teaching classes (front endpaper) - Names of B....

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Notebook 9

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

September 1965- August 1966

This notebook contains notes and drafts, including the following: - 1 sheet with ms note Includes The Rain-Giver placed loose behind front cover - Old acquaintance gone to seed..., pp. 5-7, 12-17 ...

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Notebook 27

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

June 1953 - December 1954

Notebook with drafts of poems and dramatic works, and some prose passages. Most of the poems appear to have been published in the collection'In the Fire' (1956), which was written during Blackburn's t...

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Notebook 12

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

December 1968 - March 1970

The period covered in this notebook coincides with Crossley-Holland's tenure of the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Leeds, and includes drafts of poems published in 'The Rain-Giver' ...

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Notebook 17

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1957

Poetry notebook which containing drafts of the following poems: - Only I am breft (untitled poem and notes fol. 1) - I do not think the dawn will ever break (untitled poem fol. 1-3) - Connubial(fo...

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A Life in Poetry

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

6 April 2006

Recording of A Life in Poetry: An Evening with Geoffrey Hill, 6 April 2006, Hillel House, Boston University. The event was organised to celebrate Hill's 18 years at Boston University, and was sponsore...

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