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- 1975-[1990] (Creation)
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22 ff. (text on rectos only)
Placed in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
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Holograph first drafts of fourteen poems by Raymond Garlick, 1975-[1990], comprising 'Adam in Eden', [?1975] (ff. 1-2; f. 2 is a corrected typescript), 'Ebb Tide', 19-21 October 1975 (f. 3), 'The Art Lesson', 17-18 December 1975 (f. 4), 'Where?', 5-7 January 1976 (f. 5), 'Portrait of a Young Dog as an Artist', [1975x1978] (ff. 6-8), 'Epigrams', [1975x1978] (f. 9), 'The Hottentot Fig', [24 March 1989] (ff. 10-11), 'The Comforters', [17 April 1989] (ff. 12-13), 'The Heiress', [21-22 April 1989] (ff. 14-15), 'Fellow Travellers', 28 July 1989 (ff. 16-17), 'Book Review' (first stanza only), [1 August 1989] (f. 18), 'The Odyssey Continues' (first two stanzas only), [?28 August 1989] (f. 19), 'The Exile', [?June 1990] (f. 20), and 'In the Jungle', [?June 1990] (f. 21).
'Adam in Eden' was published in Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976); 'Portrait of a Young Dog as an Artist' was published in Planet, 41 (June 1978), 29; 'Ebb Tide', 'The Art Lesson' and 'Where?' were published in Collected Poems 1946-1986 (Llandysul, 1987); 'Epigrams' is apparently unpublished. The eight later poems (ff. 11-21) all appeared in Travel Notes: New Poems (Llandysul, 1992). Also included is a typescript by the author, listing the contents; the order given has now been superseded (f. 22).
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Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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- English
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English.
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Formerly Garlick MS 17.
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Some poems dated using GR's poetry notebooks (NLW MSS 23908A, 24163A) and his diary for 1989 (NLW MS 23768B).