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Brotherton Collection6
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Leeds Poetry6

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Poem Drafts (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1970-1975

Silkin's ms lists of poems for inclusion in 'The Principle of Water', and annotated typescript drafts of poems 'A Strand from Caedmon', 'The bird is ligamented...', 'Air that pricks earth...' (from 'T...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (6)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1996-1997

Ms and typescript drafts, workings and copies of the following poems: - The Life of Tenderness - Uncrowned Earth - A Quaker's Death - Female God(including drafts titled Baruch) - A Wild Cherry T...

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New Poems

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1992-1994

Ms and typescript drafts and workings, and ts and photocopied copies of the following poems: - Am I no Jew? Father, my new-born stares, and fixes ... - Fire (These heads, bent drops of water ...) ...

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New Poems 1992 -

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1992-1993

This file contains a set of photocopied typescript poems apparently selected by Silkin for a new poetry collection. The poems are: - My Grandmother's Gift - My Father's Mother - The Fathers - The...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (4)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1992-1994

Ms and typescript drafts and workings for the following poems: - The Distaff Side (including draft titled The History of Violence) - The Break-Up (working towards The Inheritors, published posthumo...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1994-1997

Ms and typescript drafts and workings, and ts and photocopied copies of the following poems: - Father's Preparing (including drafts titled Father and the Switch) - Wills (including drafts titled Mo...

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