Worksheets of poems by Gavin Ewart for 'New Poems'

This material is held atHull University Archives, Hull History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 50 U DP163/20
  • Dates of Creation
    • c.1980
  • Physical Description
    • circa 150 items

Scope and Content

Including:

a) List of contents (carbon copies) (2)

b) Forewords (carbon copies) (2)

c) 'The Wicked Uncle' (carbon copies) (2)

d) 'Exits' (carbon copy)

e) '25A Norfolk Crescent' (carbon copy)

f) 'Ode' (carbon copy)

g) 'Invitations' (carbon copy)

h) 'Dickens and I' (carbon copy)

i) 'In the Restaurant' (carbon copy)

j) 'The Big Hand' (carbon copy)

k) 'Ballad' (carbon copy)

l) 'The Semi-Sapphics' (ms. and carbon copy), 'A Byron Bit' (ts.)

m) 'War Death in a Low Key' (carbon copy)

n) 'Sestina: The Literary Gathering' (ts. and carbon copy)

o) 'Circe I' (carbon copies) (2)

p) 'Circe II' (carbon copy)

q) 'Every Doggerel has its Day' (ts.)

r) 'Ce Petit Detail, Tellement Sexuel' (carbon copies) (2)

s) 'Hunting the Badger by Owl-Light' (carbon copy)

t) 'The Jokes of Early Aviation' (carbon copy)

u) 'In the Ninetieth Year' (carbon copy)

v) 'Cowadice' (carbon copy)

w) 'An Old Husband Suspects Adultery' (carbon copy)

x) 'Love Song' (carbon copy)

y) 'Afrokill' (ms. and carbon copy)

a) 'Back' (carbon copies) (2)

aa) 'MacNeice in Belfast 1938' (carbon copy)

ab) 'A Contemporary Film of Lancasters in Action' (carbon copy)

ac) 'The Hurricane Higgins Snooker Haiku (ms.), 'A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter' (ms.)

ad) 'Conversation Piece' (carbon copy)

ae) 'The Dwarf with Brass Teeth' (carbon copy)

af) 'The Death of W.S. Gilbert at Harrow Weald' (ms. and ts.)

ag) 'A Lyric of Love' (carbon copy)

ah) 'F For' (carbon copy)

ai) 'Property' (carbon copy)

aj) 'Down There on a Visit' (carbon copy)

ak) 'To the Puritans who are the Gods of This World' (carbon copy)

al) 'On First Looking into Michael Grant's "Cities of Vesuvius"'

am) 'The Doll Made by my Dead Sister' (ms. and carbon copy)

an) 'The Moment' (carbon copy)

ao) 'The Doggerel of Life' (carbon copy)

ap) 'Kipling's Imperialism and Ours' (carbon copy)

aq) 'The Lovesleep' (carbon copies) (2)

ar) 'Ode on the Death of the Air Commodore' (carbon copies) (4)

as) 'Rape of the Fly' (carbon copies) (2)

at) 'The Little Girl Writes a Sonnet about her Dead Cat' (carbon copy)

au) 'Tears are Round, the Sea is Deep: Roll them Overboard and Sleep' (carbon copies) (2)

av) 'O Yong Fressh Folk , Hee or Shee' (ms., ts. and carbon copy), 'Fractured French: A Rugby Rhyme' (ts.), 'Old Feminist Saying (Men as Sex bjects) (ms.)

aw) 'The Owls are Leaving' (carbon copies [2])

ax) 'Self - knowledge' (ts. and carbon copies [2])

ay) 'Pian dei Giullari' (carbon copy)

az) 'Montale' (carbon copy)

ba) 'A Punk Turkish March for Christopher on his Giving Paintings by my Dead Sister to my Children' (carbon copy)

bb) 'The Dying Animals' (ms.)

bc) 'And Female Smells in Shuttered Rooms' (ms. and carbon copy)

bd) 'Homeric Hymn' (ms., ts. and carbon copy)

be) 'Dreams' (carbon copy)

bf) 'The Crumbs of Sex and Comfort' (ms., ts. and carbon copies [2])

bg) Sonnet: 'Danish Blue' (ms., ts. and carbon copy)

bh) Sonnet: 'The Greedy Man Considers Nuclear War' (ms. and carbon copy)

bi) Sonnet: 'The Red Fairy Book' (ms. and carbon copy)

bj) Sonnet: 'The Hymn - Singers (ms. and carbon copy) and 'Ilkley' (ms.)

bk) Sonnet: 'The Light and the Dark' (carbon copy)

bl) Sonnet: 'Comics' (ts.)

bm) Sonnet: 'Cat Death' (ms. and carbon copy)

bn) 'Elegiac Verses for a Dead Headmaster' (carbon copy)

bo) 'Jubilate Matteo' (ms. and carbon copy) and 'Huckstep' (ts.)

bp) 'Double Dactyl': Emily Dickinson (carbon copy)

bq) 'An Old Larkinian' (carbon copy)

br) 'Preserved' (carbon copy)

bs) 'Madrigal' (carbon copies) (2)

bt) 'The Lively Arts' (carbon copy)

bu) 'The Victorian Husband (Before the Murder)' (carbon copy)

bv) 'A Little Traditional Song; of Love' (ms., ts. and carbon copy)

bw) 'Hear the Voice of the Bard!' (ts.)

bx) 'Strange how Potent Cheap Music is!' (ts.)

by) 'Literary, Residential' (carbon copy)

bz) 'On the Menu' (carbon copy)

ca) 'A Newly Discovered Poem, Written by Mr. William Wordsworth in his Madness' (ms. and carbon copy) and 'A Line that might be a Stumbling Block to the Puritan Faithful' (ms.)

cb) 'Marry a Lord!' (mss. [2] and carbon copy)

cc) 'Miss God' (ts. and carbon copies [2])

cd) 'The Meeting' (ts.)

ce) 'A Coy Maiden Solicits Aid from a Critic (carbon copy) and 'The Animals in the Adelaide Zoo' (carbon copy)

cf) 'A Ballad of the Good Lord Baden - Powell' (carbon copies) (2)

cg) 'A Victorian Enigma' (ms. [part only] and carbon copy)

ch) 'Stripping a Teenage Wall' (carbon copy)

ci) 'My Children's Book' (carbon copy)

cj) 'Burlesque: Auden in the Forties' (carbon copy)

ck) 'The Ballad of Erse O. Really' (ms. and carbon copy)

cl) 'For the Ghost of Nancy Mitford' (carbon copy)

cm) 'They Flee from Me, that Sometime Did Me Seek' (carbon copy)

cn) 'Dialogue Between the Alcoholic and his Better Self' (ts. and carbon copy)

co) 'A Male Chauvinist Celebrates International Women's Year' (carbon copy)

cp) 'Asked to Write a Poem on the Subject "Who Am I" for the Magazine 'Nova', 1975' (carbon copy)

cq) 'The Germanic Day' (carbon copy)

cr) 'Rooms Must be Vacated Before Noon on Day of Departure' (carbon copy)

cs) 'For Patience Strong' (carbon copy)

ct) 'Gritty' (carbon copy)

cu) 'Crucifixion' (carbon copy)

cv) 'Dirty Weekends' (ts. and carbon copy)

cw) 'Romeo Addresses his Poperin Pear' (carbon copy)

cx) 'An Outline of History' (carbon copy)

cy) 'Human Beings' (carbon copy)

cz) 'Love Difficulties' (carbon copy)

da) 'A Glastonbury Cricket Match' (carbon copy)

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