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Review of Cohen Biography
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1975
Items relating to Silkin's review of Joseph Cohen's 'Journey to the Trenches: The Life of Isaac Rosenberg, 1890-1918' (1975). Includes a ts letter from Douglas [Hill] at 'Tribune' requesting that Silk...
Review of Liddiard Biography
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1975
Items relating to Silkin's review of Jill Liddiard's 'Isaac Rosenberg: The Half Used Life' (1975). Includes an annotated typescript draft of the review; a largely clean carbon copy ts of the review; a...
Reviews
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1975-1986
Annotated typescript drafts and proof of Silkin's review of Paul Fussell's 'The Great War and Modern Memory' (1975) and postcard accompanying the review copy of Fussell's work (postmarked 4 November 1...
The Peaceable Kingdom/Heron Press (2)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
early 1970s
Items relating to the revised edition of 'The Peaceable Kingdom' published by the Heron Press in 1975. Includes a bound notebook with photocopies of pages from the 1954 edition pasted in, and with Sil...
Belgium and Luxembourg
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1974-1975
Papers relating to a British Council-sponsored visit by Jon Silkin and Lorna Tracy to Belgium and Luxembourg. Includes cuttings from newspapers in Belgium and Luxembourg; a cc ts itinerary for the vis...
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, ...
A Reply to Dominic Hibberd
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1981
Typescript and carbon copy drafts of Silkin's letter/article 'Owen: Elegist, Satirist or Neither; A Reply to Dominic Hibberd,' (publication details unknown; possibly the 'Times Literary Supplement') d...
The People
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1968-1983
This subseries comprises papers relating to Jon Silkin's long poem/verse drama 'The People.' Includes extensive drafts; revisions; and a festival programme. 'The People' was published as part of the c...
Australian Fellowship Papers 1
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1974
Papers relating to the arrangements for Jon Silkin's 1974 lecture tour of Australia. Includes a copy of the 'University of Sydney News' (19 June 1974); ts letters to Silkin from the Australian Council...
Poem Drafts (1)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1971-1975
Ms and typescript drafts, workings and poems published in 'The Little Time-keeper'. The poems include: - Gifts Against Time - Borrowing Light - In the Place of Absence - The Hungers of Commerce ...
Poem Drafts (2)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1973-1975
Typescript (including carbon copy and photocopied) drafts and poems published in 'The Little Time-keeper'. The poems include: - In the Place of Absence - Weighing Out Loss - Jarapiri - Honey and ...
Response to Karl Miller
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1975-1976
Items relating to Silkin's response to an article (possibly a review) on Rosenberg by Karl Miller that appeared in 'The New York Review of Books' (16 October 1975). Includes 3 annotated typescript dra...