| Description | Author's personal copies and proof sheets of his poems printed as Phoenix broadsheets by Toni Savage. Envelope also contains a list of titles issued in 1979 ['a series of poems and short prose by various authors, illustrated and printed for distribution on the streets, in Folk clubs and at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester. Average size about 9 x 5, average edition about 300'] Poems listed by title (where known) or first line in chronological order:
'Parasites in paradise', 1963; 'Reginald Rabbit. Esquire (Retired)', n.d.; 'There are days..', 1978; 'Green after rain', 1978; 'The virtues of Bacchus', with 'For Antonio Magnifico' on reverse, n.d.; 'Reflection', n.d.; 'Tend your roses gently', 1979; 'Which hot ghost will whisper', 1979; 'Reflection', 1980; 'Daybreak', 1980; 'Brock', 1981; 'Nature note', 1981; 'Far recompense', 1983; 'Unpity', 1983; '- "that all genes are created equal"…', n.d.; 'Sea dream', 1983; 'Reflection', 1983; 'Why do you?', 1983; 'But Jung lost out…', 1983; 'On a poet', 1984 (from The Speech of Phantoms, 1951); 'Music', 1984; 'Miss Leghorn, a pullet', 1984; 'Song', 1984 (from Lyrics from Nancledra, 1950); 'April', 1985; 'Think no further…', 1985, (from: The Speech of Phantoms, 1951); 'Roses, roses everywhere', 1985; 'Grandad's looking wistful', 1986; 'Italy 1929', 1986; 'An end to love', 1986; 'Absent to forgive', 1986; 'The feather: a song', 1987 (from Lyrics from Nancledra, 1950); 'What a shrink thinks', 1988; 'Down in the forest something stirred', 1988; 'Love in self-regard', 1988; 'Good Bacchus guard these steps of mine', 1988; 'Lines written to boost my morale', 1989 (written in 1963); 'Lune blanche de miel', 1990; 'Muse', 1990; 'The cloud', 1991; 'Old Johnny Bagwash' 1991. |