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Typescript drafts of individual poems. Most are by John Heath-Stubbs, but some do not appear in his Collected Poems and cannot be definitely attributed to him. See also JHS/2/1 and JHS/2/2 for manuscript copies of some of these poems

This bundle consists of the following poems:

/1 'Advertisement Corner'
/2 'An Awning of Cashmir Silk'
/3 'Apologia of a Plastic Gnome', annotated
/4 Two copies of 'At Bonchurch' (For Maurice Carpenter), one annotated, one corrected
/5 Two copies of 'The Beast'. The title of this poem has been changed from 'Hunger'
/6 Two copies of 'Bethlehem', one annotated, the other corrected
/7 'Bevis of Hampton' (For Norman Nicholson)
/8 'Birthday Poem at Very Short Notice' signed John Heath-Stubbs
/9 'Birthday Poem for Kathleen Raine' signed John Heath-Stubbs
/10 'The Blackbird'
/11 'The Blackcap'
/12 'The Blameless Aethiopians'
/13 'Blue Birds Over Hull', annotated
/14 'A Butterfly in October', annotated
/15 'Cabbage White (for Audrey Nicholson)'
/16 'Camille Saint-Saens', signed John Heath-Stubbs
/17 'Christus Natus Est', signed John Heath-Stubbs
/18 'Cockroaches, or Kismet'
/19 'The Corira'
/20 'The Cormorant'
/21 'The Corn Bunting'
/22 'Couperin at the Keyboard', annotated
/23 'Crab Louse'
/24 'A Crow in Bayswater', signed John Heath-Stubbs
/25 Two copies of 'The Cuckoo', one annotated, one corrected
/26 Two copies of 'The Death of Llew', one signed John Heath-Stubbs
/27 Three copies of 'A Double Dream', with annotations and corrections
/28 'The Eagles'
/29 'An Extinct Volcano', annotated
/30 'A Few Strokes on the Sand'
/31 'Footnote to Belloc's Tarantella'
/32 'For a Cough'
/33 'For a Platonist on her Birthday'
/34 'For George Barker at Seventy'
/35 Two copies of 'For the Exequies of Bertrand Russell'
/36 'For the Funeral of Sylvia Gough'
/37 'For Vernon Watkins 1906-1967'
/38 'A Formality'
/39 'Fort-in-the-Pool'
/40 Four copies of 'From an Ecclesiastical Chronicle', three annotated, one corrected
/41 'Funeral Music for Charles Wrey Gardiner', annotated
/42 'Further Adventures of Doctor Faustus', annotated
/43 'A Ghazel of Hafiz'
/44 'The Giant'
/45 'Girls of Alexandria', annotated
/46 'Golgotha'
/47 'Great Black-Backed Gulls'
/48 Two copies of 'The Great Bustard', one annotated, one corrected
/49 'The Great Tit'
/50 'The Green Man's Last Will and Testament; An Eclogue: For Adrian Flick', annotated
/51 'The Green Man's Return'
/52 Two copies of 'The Green Woodpecker'
/53 'His Excellency's Poetry', annotated
/54 'Homage to J.S. Bach', annotated
/55 'Honey and Lead'
/56 'The Hoopoe'
/57 Two copies of 'Hornbills in Northern Nigeria (to Hilary Fry)', annotated, dated 1964 and 1965
/58 'The House Sparrow'
/59 'I am asked to say a few words about my own work'
/60 'The Immolation of Aleph'
/61 Two copies of 'In Memory of Father Geoffrey Curtis CR'
/62 'In Praise of John Milton', annotated
/63 Two copies of 'In Return for the Gift of a Pomander', both annotated, one marked "To Cathy Titner"
/64 'In the Sabine Hills'
/65 'Jankynmass (For Charles Causley)'
/66 'The Kestrel'
/67 'King Alfred the Bruce'
/68 Three copies of 'King Bladud', two annotated, one corrected
/69 Two copies of 'The Kingfisher', one annotated, one corrected
/70 'Lines on Beech Trees'
/71 'Letter to David Wright (On his Sixtieth Birthday)'
/72 'Letter to Peter Avery', annotated
/73 'Madame Blavatsky in Oxford'
/74 Two copies of 'The Magpie'
/75 Four copies of 'Medea and Absyrtus', with annotations and corrections
/76 'The Missel-Thrush'
/77 Poem titled 'After Sappho'. This poem was published under the title 'Moonset (After Sappho)'
/78 Two copies of 'The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage', one annotated with a handwritten draft attached, the other corrected
/79 Two copies of 'The Mute Swan', one annotated, one corrected
/80 'Nature Red in Tooth and Claw', with handwritten note on reverse
/81 'The Nightjar'
/82 'Nixon, the Cheshire Prophet (for Bernard Saint)'
/83 'Notes Towards a Palinode' (for Sean Hutton)
/84 'The Nuthatch'
/85 Two copies of 'Old Mobb', one annotated, one corrected
/86 'On the Tomb of Orpheus', annotated
/87 Two copies of 'The Oystercatcher', one annotated, one corrected
/88 'Pentecost 1975'
/89 'The Pheasant'
/90 'Prescribed Author', annotated
/91 Three copies of 'Purkis', annotated, one signed John Heath-Stubbs
/92 Two copies of 'Queen Gruach (for John Wain)', annotated
/93 'The Ravens'
/94 'The Reed Warbler'
/95 'The Robin'
/96 'St Cuthbert and the Otter (for Gerard Irvine)'
/97 Two copies of 'St Francis Preaches to the Computers (for Arthur and Mary Creedy)'
/98 Two copies of 'St Michael and the Dragon', annotated, signed John Heath-Stubbs
/99 'The Septmaine', annotated
/100 'Sestina', signed John Heath-Stubbs
/101 Two copies of 'The Sheldrake', one annotated
/102 'Simcox'
/103 'Skeltonics for St Cecilia's Day'
/104 Two copies of 'The Skylark'
/105 'Souvenir of St Petersburg'
/106 'The Spotted Flycatcher'
/107 'Squirling', annotated
/108 'The Stag Beetles'
/109 'The Stonechat'
/110 'The Storm Petrel'
/111 'The Swallow'
/112 'The Swift'
/113 Translation of Mikhail Lermontov's 'Tamara', annotated
/114 'The Tawny Owl'
/115 'Theseus and the Minotaur'
/116 'To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence', annotated
/117 'To George Barker on his Sixtieth Birthday', signed John Heath-Stubbs
/118 'To Inhibit the Breeding of Maggots in Cheese'
/119 'To Keep Away Moles (for Elspeth Barker)'
/120 'To the Exterminator', signed John Heath-Stubbs
/121 'To the Queen; On the occasion of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee, 1977'
/122 'To Whom it May Concern (FC, on his 65th birthday)'
/123 'The Tree-Creeper'
/124 'A Triolet for Easter'
/125 'The Turtle Dove'
/126 'Two Poems for the Epiphany', annotated
/127 Three copies of 'The Watchman's Flute (Kano)', annotated
/128 'The Waterhen'
/129 Two copies of 'The Whooper Swan', annotated
/130 'The Wild Geese'
/131 'The Woodcock'
/132 'Woodstock', annotated
/133 'The Wren'
/134 'The Yellowhammer'

This bundle also includes a number of fragments or incomplete typescript copies of poems, with first lines as follows:

/135 "The hero said: 'Open your mouth,'..."
/136 "He wept, and all those present wept..."
/137 "They surrendered their freedom to the first sovereign..."
/138 "The Otter: 'Master, I do not know'..."
/139 "The turnstone and the oystercatcher / Don't love Mrs Thatcher..."
/140 "Though Master Johnson writes fine verses for them..."
/141 "The spiders were burnt to clinkers"
/142 "With its checks and balances, it might chance to bear up..."
/143 "They bear a dead mouse to its funeral..."
/144 "Lay your wrathful rage aside..."
/145 "The proud Theodora, the prop of his throne..."
/146 "Outside, the crass Bourbon oppression..."

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title of poem, with incomplete or unidentified typescripts at the end of the series.