Description | Gathered in an envelope, addressed to RST at Llanfairynghornwy, Holyhead, marked 'Poems for Munich'. Poems titled:
'Praise',
'Contemporary',
'Sequences',
'Arrival',
'Kneeling',
'The Moor',
'Petiton',
'The Bright Field',
'The Fly',
'The Way of It',
'Song',
'Present',
'The Absence',
'Postscript',
'Predicaments',
'Citizen',
'Prayer',
'Calling',
'A Life',
'Message',
'A Country',
'Countering',
'Reply',
[Untitled, consisting of two nine-line stanzas. 'I saw the land and it was not...' '...Down, because of his human rags.'],
[Untitled, consisting of 14 lines. 'There are nights that are so still...' '...But for days, years, for eternity.'],
[Untitled, consisting of two stanzas, one sexain and one octave, respectively. 'But the silence in the mind...' '...Such ubiquity by remaining still.'],
[Untitled, consisting of two quatrains. 'When we are weak we are...' '...uninvited the guest comes.'],
'Economy',
'Play',
'Two Views of a Gorilla',
'Plea',
'So',
'Capitalism'.
"‘The Moor’ published in Pieta (Hart-Davis 1966).
‘Kneeling’ published in Not That He Brought Flowers (Hart-Davis 1968).
‘Petition’, ‘Song’, ‘Postscript’ published in H’m, (Macmillan 1972).
‘The Bright Field’ published in Laboratories of the Spirit (Macmillan 1975).
‘Praise’, ‘The Way of It’ published in The Way of It (Ceolfrith Press 1977).
‘Present’, ‘The Absence’, Play’ published in Frequencies (Macmillan 1978).
‘Arrival' published in Later Poems 1972-1983 (Macmillan 1983).
‘Two Views of a Gorilla’, published in Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 2003).
‘Message’, in a slightly revised form, and ‘Prayer’ published in Ingrowing Thoughts (Poetry Wales Press 1985).
‘The Fly’, ‘Calling’, ‘A Life’, ‘A Country’, ‘Countering’, ‘Reply’ published in Experimenting with an Amen, (Macmillan 1986).
‘I saw the land and it was not…’, ‘There are nights that are so still…’ published in The Echoes Return Slow (Macmillan 1988).
‘But the silence in the mind…’, ‘When we are weak, we are…’ published in Counterpoint (Bloodaxe 1990).
‘Predicaments’, ‘Citizen’, ‘Economy’, ‘Plea’, ‘So’, ‘Capitalism’ remain unpublished in any collection.
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