| Description | Bundle of draft poems, in the hand of RST. Features the following poems:
‘Blackbird’,
[Untitled, 22 lines. ‘Easter I approach… …For faith’s finger tips to explore.’], [Untitled, one octave one sexain. ‘The city was musical… …At the violence that is being done to them.’ Written on verso of a fragment of a letter from one Rupert Allen requesting an interview, in person, with RST.];
[Untitled, 24 lines. ‘Language has run its course… …It is my own fingers that bleed.’ Written on verso of a loose leaf of front matter, taken from a book published by Babel.]
[Untitled, 16 lines. On Monday a stricken… …And was never the winner.’ Written on verso of a sheet of stationery from A Georgian Country Hotel.];
‘The Marksman’ – written on verso of a fragment of a letter, written in Welsh, from the department of Welsh studies, Coleg y Drindod, confirming the details of an engagement of RST’s.
[Untitled, 22 lines. ‘Not to go on… …To other experiments in a different orbit.’],
[Untitled, 39 lines. ‘To fit poetry into a world… … Roared on, choking upon it.’],
[Untitled, 38 lines, heavily revised. ‘The angels are not mad… …Thing to keep is one’s balance.’],
‘Llangynllo’,
[Untitled, 25 lines. ‘Too personal, God is not… …In accordance with the potential of the silicon chip.’ Written on verso of a fragment of a letter from one Alice Fitzpatrick, asking permission to feature an unnamed poem in an unidentified programme.],
‘USA’,
‘Life’ – written on verso of a fragment of a printout of RST’s poem ‘Cones’.
‘Prague Dreams’,
‘Tourney’,
‘Scurvy Grass’ – initialled RST and written on verso of a letter from one Ray Carter, of Bracknell, asking if RST would be willing to sign copies of his work.
[Untitled, 30 lines. “‘What time is it’ I said… …desert and hide me in its shadows.”],
[Untitled, 17 lines. ‘The reports kept coming and coming… …growing mildew in my pocket.’ Written on verso of a fragment of an advertisement for specialist mosaic craft books.],
[Untitled, 14 lines. ‘It is a thicket… …Love grudges us closed.’],
‘The Price’,
‘The Rumour’.
[Untitled, 24 lines. ‘Can we keep the dead back… …Of the meaning haloing our expectations.’],
[Untitled, 2 quatrains. ‘I knew it… …Baptism in the gene pool.’],
[Untitled, 19 lines. ‘How shall we sing the Lord’s song… …One tree of faith for our saviour to come down from.’ Written on verso of a fragment of a typescripts of RST’s poem ‘Time’.],
‘The Spectator’.
[Untitled, 12 couplets. ‘If words’ purpose… …To split truth’s one single hair.’],
[Untitled, 8 lines. ‘Arriving ahead of a dawdling… …For the interpretations of surgeons.’ Written on verso of a fragment of a letter from the BBC to RST, dated 24/11/1995, regarding RST’s agreement to participate in a programme titled ‘The Bookworm’.
"‘Blackbird’, Agenda, 36.2 (Autumn 1998): 7; Uncollected Poems, ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies, (Bloodaxe Books, 2013).
[‘Easter. I approach’], The Cross, ed. K.A. Perryman (Denkingen, Germany: Babel, 2009); Uncollected Poems, ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies (Bloodaxe Books, 2013).
[‘Language has run its course’], Das Kreuz, ed. K.A. Perryman (Denklingen, Germany: Babel, 2010); Uncollected Poems, ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies (Bloodaxe Books, 2013).
[‘On Monday a stricken’], published as ‘Diary’, Agenda, 36.2 (Autumn 1998): 6; Uncollected Poems, ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies (Bloodaxe Books, 2013).
‘The Marksman’, Agenda, 36.2 (Autumn 1998): 7.
‘Tourney’, Uncollected Poems, ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies (Bloodaxe Books, 2013).
[‘It is a thicket’], published as ‘Born Lost’, Uncollected Poems, ed. Tony Brown & Jason Walford Davies (Bloodaxe Books, 2013); featured in a charity anthology for ‘Shelter Cymru’.
‘The Price’, Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 2003).
[‘How shall we sing the Lord’s song?’], published as ‘How’, Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 2003).
‘The Spectator’, Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 2003).
The remainder have not been published in a collection.
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