Draft poems in hands other than John Heath-Stubbs's own. Most of these poems appear to be by Heath-Stubbs himself and were presumably written out by an amanuensis as many of them are in the same hand. However, a number of manuscripts cannot be identified by the handwriting or by cross referencing with his Collected Poems, therefore it is not clear whether all of these poems are by Heath-Stubbs.
This bundle consists of the following poems:
- /1 'And then the Poetess'
- /2 'Belshazzar's Feast'
- /3 'Casta Diva (In Memory of Maria Castas)'
- /4 'Cockroaches, or Kismet'
- /5 'A Crow in Bayswater' dated 30 July 1976
- /6 'The Curlew'
- /7 'Eat the Vampire'
- /8 'For a Carol Service'
- /9 'Funeral Music for Charles Wrey Gardiner'
- /10 'Greenfinch'
- /11 'The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage'
- /12 'Notes Towards a Palinode (For Séan Hutton)'
- /13 'Queen Gruach (for John Wain)'
- /14 'St Francis Preaches to the Computers'
- /15 'The Septmaine'
- /16 'Square Pineapples'
- /17 'Tamara'
- /18 'With the Gift of a Shell (for Guthrie Mackie)'
- /19 Untitled poem beginning "To the still point of the moon..." [a draft of Bernard Saint's poem 'The Ascent', dedicated to Thomas Blackburn; it appeared in his collection Testament of the Compass (1978)].
- /20 Fragment labelled 'Insert' beginning "Aristotle opined, indeed..."
- /21 Page of notes on poetry and language