| Description | 'Union Street' was published in 1957 by Rupert Hart-Davis and contained a selection of poems from Causley's earlier collections 'Farewell, Aggie Weston' and 'Survivor's leave', as well as 19 new poems.
'Johnny Alleluia' was Causley's fourth collection of poetry, following 'Farewell, Aggie Weston', Survivor's Leave' and 'Union Street'. It was first published in 1961 by Rupert Hart-Davis.
1. Fine typescript volume labelled "Poems from UNION STREET and JOHNNY ALLELUIA by CHARLES CAUSLEY", n.d., containing the following poems:
Death of an air-craft
Timothy Winters
Ou Phrontis
At the British war cemetery, Bayeux
At the statue of William the Conqueror, Falaise
Cowboy song
Keats at Teignmouth
Chief petty officer
Mevagissey
I saw a shot-down angel
Song of the dying gunner AA1
Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience
Innocent's song
Johnny Alleluia
My friend Maloney
Mother get up, unbar the door
The ballad of Charlotte Dymond
Sailors asleep in a cinema
Prinz Eugen
Recruiting drive
NB it is not thought that this typescript was ever published in this precise format, although some of these appeared in the Longman Poetry Library anthology 'Charles Causley and Kathleen Raine' (1969) and in 'Penguin Modern Poets: George Baker, Martin Bell and Charles Causley' (1962) |