| Description | Bundle of draft poems, in the hand of RST. Features the following poems:
‘Prey’ (signed by RST)
‘Could Be’ - On verso of a flier promoting the formation of a consortium of eco-friendly and nationalist groups in order to purchase and preserve Carreg Farm
‘Alaska’
[Untitled, three quatrains. ‘All men seek the beyond…’ ‘…to offer but the homage.’]
[Untitled, eight tercets. ‘We have our mountains…’ ‘…on time’s snow and become abominable.’]
[Untitled, seven couplets. ‘There is a word between them…’ ‘…the irrevocability of things left unsaid.’ On verso are two drafts of an untitled poem beginning ‘The Balkans…’]
[Untitled, three tercets. ‘The Balkans…’ ‘…in his absence abominable.’]
[Untitled, three quatrains. ‘Did you meet him…’ ‘…and call itself his father.’]
[Untitled, 23 lines. ‘Taking the second turning…’ ‘…truth is never more than on loan.’]
[Untitled, 26 lines. ‘The seed – mystery…’ ‘…thought, but visited by sunlight.’]
[Untitled, five quintains. ‘We were born…’ ‘…Oh, oh, treasures. Oh, oh treasures.’]
[Untitled, five quintains. ‘We were born…’ ‘…Oh, oh, treasures. Oh, oh treasures.’ A significantly revised draft of the previous poem]
[Untitled, 20 lines. ‘Sometimes taking advantage…’ ‘…as though their voices were thawed flame.’]
[Untitled, 22 lines. ‘It was the sort of conversation…’ ‘…in its ability to gaze on as eyes closed.’]
[Untitled, seven couplets, heavily revised. ‘The short line, the long woe…’ ‘…need not be brought up short.’]
[Untitled, two quatrains. ‘I saw the night fold its wings over the moon…’]
[Untitled, eight couplets, struck-out and heavily revised. ‘Lived longer, wrote…’]
‘Supposing’
[Untitled, 22 lines. ‘P.S. I forgot. Would you?’ ‘…name for you know where.’]
[Untitled, 20 lines. ‘Troy was sacked. Carthage…’ ‘…Is nowhere.’]
[Untitled, 24 lines. ‘Giving up the struggle…’ ‘…overflowing with trivia.’]
[Untitled, 10 lines. ‘Unaccustomed for mating…’ ‘…In procrastination.’]
[Untitled, four sexains. ‘Whose drift is dust + moonlight…’ ‘…Of existence, while letting them happen.’]
[Untitled, 25 lines. ‘I with my eye on a girl…’ Written on verso of an invitation to a charity event, organized by the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, intended to raise money for the purchase of a bust by Michael Rysbrack]
[Untitled, two quatrains, one tercet. ‘This is where they pay money…’ ‘’…Too far away to be a mountain collapsing.’]
[Untitled, two quatrains, one tercet. ‘There was that peace…’ ‘…We did pass.’]
[Untitled, nine couplets. ‘Don’t look up so we do…’ ‘…On the rottenness of Europe.’]
[Untitled, four quatrains, revised and struck-out. ‘The whole town…’ ‘…To Columbus: You should have stayed home.’]
‘Hesitations’ - written on verso of a photocopy of RST’s poem ‘Other’ (H’m 1972)
[Untitled, four quatrains. ‘As though some second incarnation…’ ‘…on the hole of the asp, about to be bitten.’ Written on verso of a photocopy of Psalm 106 (REB)]
[Untitled, 27 lines. ‘Could I imagine…’ ‘…an imagined glory.’]
[Untitled, five quatrains. ‘They fix this moment…’ ‘…Take us, we belong.’]
[Untitled, two quatrains. ‘Immobility becomes them…’ ‘…Your snapshot. We belong here.’]
[Untitled, ten couplets. ‘I was within hailing…’ ‘…Not in passing as tho’ it were a poem.’]
[Untitled, ten couplets. ‘I can’t write…’ ‘…You relax with + make yourself at home.’]
[Untitled, 27 lines. ‘I think of those faces…’ ‘…My conscience from an inferior glory.’]
[Untitled, two quatrains. ‘We draw blinds, curtains…’ ‘…Keeps the [?] awake all night long.’]
Could Be', Mass for Hard Times (Bloodaxe Books, 1992)
‘Alaska’, Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 2003)
‘Sometimes taking advantage...’, Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 2003).
The remainder have not been published in a collection.
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