File AA1/2 - Poems: ‘Early English drafts and MSS’

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AA1/2

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Poems: ‘Early English drafts and MSS’

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  • 1983-1987, 1990-[1998] (Creation)

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Manuscript and typescript drafts with emendations by Gwyneth Lewis of published and unpublished poems by her, including 'Melangell Variations', 'Cân y Gofotwr', 'Er Cof am Hugh Williams', 'The Reference Library', 'Coconut Postcards', 'Midwinter Marriage', 'Annunciation', 'A Calm', 'A Golf Course Resurrection', 'Opening the Tomb', 'Dark Ages', 'Bayeux Tapestry', 'Herod's Palace', 'Siege', 'Walking with the God', 'Tara's Visit', 'The Bonfire', 'The Telegraph Baby', 'The No Madonnas', 'Resurgence Pool', 'Sunday Park', 'Old Statues' Park in Budapest', 'Chernobyl Icon', 'Epilogue', 'Rhyfel a Heddwch', 'The Correctional Centre', 'Hive to the Vine', 'Death and the Maiden', 'Abbey Cwmhir', 'Emyn y Canmlwyddiant', 'In Central Park', 'Leaving Nantucket', 'Cân y Gwneuthurwr Mapiau', 'First Haunting', 'On the Air', 'Dalton's Geranium', 'In the Dead of Winter', 'Parable of the Awkward Woman', 'Leaving America', 'At the Airport', 'Purloined and Pursued', 'Full Fathom Five', 'Part the Third' (including a draft annotated by Derek Walcott), 'The Death of Mrs Davies', 'To a Hermit Crab', 'Thanks for a Conger Dinner', 'In the Snow Queen's Palace', 'Meat', 'The West', 'After the Snow Queen', 'The Death of Mrs Dylan', 'The Voledom of Skomer', 'Going Primitive', 'Welsh Espionage', 'The Bad Shepherd', 'A Welcome to East Oxford', 'On Mayon Volcano', 'A Love Alphabet', 'On the Estate', 'Spring at the Leper House Allotments', 'The Cut of Women's Clothes' and 'Looking for the Celts', as well as many poems not bearing names, together with notes on poetry by Gwyneth Lewis, a poster for a poetry event organised by the Oxford University Poetry Society, a printout from Poetry Review featuring Gwyneth Lewis, a printout of an article about Irina Ratushinskaya, and draft copies of pages from Parables and Faxes including the contents, acknowledgements and biographical note.

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  • English
  • Welsh

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English and Welsh.

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Other papers relating to Parables and Faxes are in AA1/3 and AA1/4; versions of some of the other poems in this file are also in AA1/3; papers relating to Sonedau Redsa and Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri are in AA1/1 and AA1/7 respectively; and three further poems composed by Gwyneth Lewis during his period are contained in a letter to her parents in BB/4.

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Some of these poems were published in: Gwyneth Lewis, Sonedau Redsa a Cherddi Eraill (Gwasg Gomer, 1990); idem, Parables and Faxes (Bloodaxe Books : Newcastle upon Tyne, 1995); idem, Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 1996); and idem, Zero Gravity (Bloodaxe Books : Newcastle upon Tyne, 1998).

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  • Text: Gwyneth Lewis Papers AA1/2 (Box 1)