| Description | Notebook containing drafts of poems written in the hand of RST. Poems featured are as follows:
[Untitled, five tercets. ‘The one who is called God… …Only to fly too near.],
[Untitled, 15 lines, heavily revised. ‘At the end of the tunnel… …Was of our own making.’],
[Untitled, 15 lines. ‘Over our world stands the one… …In all its immunity the machine brandishing.’],
[Untitled, 21 lines. ‘The ur-country has ?left… …Each with the other over its direction.’],
[Untitled, 22 lines. ‘His ears are oceans apart…’],
[Untitled, 14 lines. ‘The further we enter… At hand. And meeting it face to face.’],
[Untitled, 10 lines. ‘I said to the wind… …To a cry from the cross.’],
[Untitled, two octaves. ‘Count down, take off… …The pressure of everything but love.’],
[Untitled, 10 lines. ‘Convinced they could do… …To the camera, the baptised ?crush.’],
[Untitled, eight couplets. ‘I looked at the gods… …Carrier of the gospel of our stocks and shares.’],
[Untitled, eight tercets. ‘I have opted out… …Lest we dissolve both of us in hot tears.’],
[Untitled, 11 lines. ‘Today after long… …Has been done to us.’],
[Untitled, two quatrains. ‘Yeats said the young… …Contemporary verse out of the gutter.’],
[Untitled, 7 couplets. ‘Waiting on… …Where is the poem?’],
[Untitled, 16 lines. ‘Despite Athanasius… …Provided there is silence.’],
[Untitled, two quatrains. ‘Could it be… …In order to applaud?’],
[Untitled, three quatrains. ‘I can manage… …To out of great depths.’],
[Untitled, 30 lines. ‘Don’t write to me unless… …Between one dark and another.’],
[Untitled, 22 couplets. ‘As we have two languages… …From what is left over.]
Poems remain unpublished in any collection. |