Worksheets of poems by Gavin Ewart

This material is held atHull University Archives, Hull History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 50 U DP163/12
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1978]
  • Physical Description
    • 119 items

Scope and Content

Including:

I) Worksheets of poems by Gavin Ewart published in 'All My Little Ones' (1978):

a) 'And Now For Something Completely Different', (ms. and carbon)

b) 'Preface'. ('Introduction' on ms.) (ms., ts. and carbon)

c) 'Hail and Farewell' (ts.)

d) 'Double Haiku: Britain and Surrealism (below with 'Haiku: The Time of East / West Comparison' (ms.)

e) 'Folk-Hero', (ts. and carbon)

f) 'Variation on a Pompeian Brothel Graffito' and 'Simulation / Stimulation' (ms., ts. and carbon)

g) 'Creation Myth Haiku' (ms. and carbon)

h) 'Haiku: The Seasons of Celebrity' and 'Even a Batsman as great as Hobbs' (mss.)

i) 'Edwardian Haiku: Scrubbers' (ts.)

j) 'The Surrealist Landscape' (ms., ts. and carbon)

k) 'These Were the Names of the Novels' (ms., ts., and carbon)

l) 'The Rhyming Sland of the Postcards' (carbon) and 'The Alliterative Lament' (ms.)

m) On back is ms. of 'For Children of All Ages', a review of 'Vanishing Trick',by Brian Patten and 'In the Classroom' by Roger McGough

n) 'The Characters That made the Plays so Marvellous' (ms., ts. and carbon

o) 'Seasonal Double Haikus: The Mating Season, (ms. and carbon)

p) 'Form' (ts. and carbon)

q) 'The Beginning of an Augustan Ode to Masturbation. Written at the Request of Several Ladies and Gentlemen of Quality' (ms., ts. and carbon)

r) 'The 1930's Sex Novel' (ms., ts. and carbon)

s) 'A Daisychain for the Queen's Jubilee (1952 - 1977) (ms. and ts.)

t) 'Advertisement: Bread of Life' (ms.), 'Double Haiku: The Lost Compositions' (ms. and ts.) and 'Haiku: Hell's Grannies' (ms. and ts.)

u) 'Early Tribes' (ms.) and 'Winter Haiku' (Expanded) (ms., ts. and carbon)

v) 'A Short History of Renaissance Rome' (ms.) and 'We live in the Real World, Where Bad Things Happen' (ms.)

w) 'The Poor Rich' (ms.) and 'The Double Prefix' (ms.)

x) 'Women's Work' (ts.), 'Patronage' (ts.), 'Invasion' (ts.), 'The Time Machine' (ts.)

y) 'The National Games' (ms., ts. and carbon)

z) 'The Critics and the Golden age' (ts.)

aa) 'Rugby Special Clerihew' (ts.)

ab) 'T. Sturge Moore', (ms.)

ac) 'John Reginald Halliday Christie' (carbon)

ad) 'Penal' (carbon)

ae) 'Life-Style' (ms., ts. and carbon)

af) 'On the 'A' Level Syllabus' (ms. and carbon)

ag) 'The Little Pictures' (ms. and tss.) (2) and 'Gnomic Poem' (ms.)

ah) 'Impacted' (ms. and carbon)

ai) 'The Difference' (ts.)

aj) 'Haiku: After the Orgies' (ms.)

ak) 'Two Nonsense Limericks' (ms., ts. and carbon), 'Nonsense Limerick' (ms.) and 'From the Rhyming Dictionary' (ms.)

al) 'Thought About the Human Race' (ms.)

am) 'Downfall' (ms.)

an) 'Serious Song' (ms. and carbon), 'Going Metric' (ms.) and Page of ms. notes

ao) 'The Old - Fashioned Epigram' (ms. and carbon)

ap) 'A Great Poem' (ms. and carbon)

aq) 'Ordinary' (carbon) and 'Odd Men Out, Stateside' (carbon)

ar) 'Military History' (ms. and carbon)

as) 'To Be Sniffed At' (ts. and carbon)

at) 'The Defeated Husband' (ts.)

au) 'The Anti-Cerebral Gut-Reaction Poem' (ms., ts. and carbon)

av) 'Eve and the Apple' (ts.)

aw) 'Autumn' (ts. and carbon)

ax) 'Night Scene' (ts. and carbon)

ay) 'The Father of English Poetry' (ms. and ts.)

az) 'The Not Exactly Haikus' (carbon)

ba) 'Power Politics' (carbon)

bb) 'The Sexual Sigh' (ms. and ts.), 'The Poor Man's Complaint' (ms.), 'Dark Consolation' (ms.)

bc) 'What the Rich Children Imagine' (carbon)

bd) 'Haiku: The Time of East / West Comparison (ms., ts. and carbon), 'Double Haiku: Britain and Surrealism' (ms.)

be) 'On the Ambivalence of Male Contact Sports'

bf) 'A Remarkable Thing' (ms.)

bg) 'The Edge on Us' (carbon)

bh) 'Consequences' (ms. and carbon)

bi) 'A Dull Morning Enlivened', (ms. and carbon)

bj) 'Americans' (tss.) (2)

bk) 'Transformation' (ts. and carbon)

bl) 'An Emblem of Govenment (Elizabethan), (ms. and ts.), 'God and Women' (ms.)

bm) 'Education (Lord Leatherhead's Song)', (ts.)

bn) 'Haiku: The Sex War [ms. is with 'F for' in 'New Poems', as U DP/163/14a]

bo) 'Found in V.S. Pritchett' (ms. and carbon)

bp) 'Black Clerihew' (ts.)

bq) 'Ink' (ms. and carbon)

br) 'L.O.V.E.' (ms., ts. and carbon)

bs) 'A Pronounced Difference' (mss. [2] and carbon), 'The Short Blake-Style Gnomic Epigram' (ms. and carbon)

bt) 'After Death' (ms.), 'The Bitterness of the American Lover' (ms.)

bu) 'Dark Consolation' (carbon)

bv) 'Julia Wood', (ts. and carbon)

bw) 'Natural Enemies' (ts.), 'A Mystery' (ms.), 'A Theory' (ms.)

bx) 'Image' (carbon)

by) 'A Memory of 1953' (ms. and ts.)

bz) 'The Indian Love Lyric' (ts.)

ca) 'Card Play' (press cutting from 'Tribune')

cb) 'Haiku of Female Old Age' (ms. and carbon)

cd) 'The Basic Desires' (ms. and carbon)

ce) 'Le Petit Po me Fran ais' (carbon)

cf) 'Insults to the Brain' (ms., ts. and carbon)

II) Worksheets of poems not used ('Throwouts. All My Little Ones'):

a) Table of Contents (carbon)

b) 'Martial Writes in Double Haiku' (ms. and carbon)

c) 'Fair Play' (carbon)

d) 'Sheer Heaven my Dear' (ms., ts. and carbon)

e) 'Hymn' (ms. and carbon)

f) 'The British All-Season Love Haiku' (ms., ts. and carbon)

g) 'The Saloon Bar Poem (For Laughs)' (ms.), 'The American View of British and American poetry' (ms.), 'A Theory' (ms.)

h) 'A Warning to the Ruling Class' (tss.) (2)

i) 'The Watts / Carroll Poem' (ts.)

j) 'Fairy Tale' (ts. and carbon)

k) 'Evelyn and the After - Life' (ts.)

l) 'Elizabethan Song' (ts.)

m) 'The Poet Complains of the Coldness of Reviewers' (ms.)

n) 'Tracing in Kipling Now' (ts.)

o) 'In the divorce court' (carbon)

p) 'The Clerihew of Self-Appreciation' (ts.)

q) 'A Question' (ts.)

r) 'The Three Way Limerick' (carbon)

s) 'Where the Action is' (carbon)

t) 'Epigram Inspired by a Line of George Macbeth' (ts.)

u) 'Poem' (ms.)

v) 'Simile' (carbon)

w) 'Warfare' (ts.)

x) 'Some are More Equal than Others' (ts.)

y) 'A One - time Epitaph for Brian Howard' (ms.)

z) 'Apocalypse' (ts.)

aa) 'A Mini - Martial' (ts.)

ab) ' On the Tercentenary of Milton's Death' (See U DP/163/10e) (ts.)

ac) 'Ghost Story Opening' (ts.)

ad) 'Another Blake-Style Gnomic Epigram' (ts.)

ae) 'The plots of Dickens' novels are often their weakest part. Discuss' (ts.)

af) 'The Erotic Miniatures' (ts.)

ag) 'The Titles' (ts.)

ah) 'Motherhood' (ms.)

ai) 'Margo's Daisy Chain Poem' (ts.)

aj) 'Home Truths' (ms.), 'Lord Durrell Surveys the Land of Egypt in the 1950s' (ms.), 'Teachers' (ms.)

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