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..."