Ffeil / File BA/3 - Other poetry by Tony Curtis

Draft and fair-copied poetry by Tony Curtis which does not appear to have been included in either of the collections Heaven's Gate (Seren Books, 2001) or Crossing Over (Seren Books, 2007). Different versions of the same poem are grouped together so that Curtis's development of the poem from initial rough draft(s) may be traced, with some poem titles changing over time (order in which drafts appear here does not necessarily reflect original development of poems).

The sequence of poems titled 'Crows Edges Black', translated from the Italian by Tony Curtis and Silvana Siviero, also includes a letter to Curtis from Siviero, biographical notes relating to writer and translator Andrea Bianchi and poet Giampiero Neri and excerpts translated by Curtis and Siviero from Neri's L'aspetto occidentale del vestito (Guanda, 1976).

For email, 23 January 2001, to Tony Curtis from Andrea Bianchi and Silvana Siviero, see under heading Letters to Tony Curtis.

WARNING: POEM TITLED 'RACES' CONTAINS (DELIBERATELY) OFFENSIVE RACIAL TERMINOLOGY (PRESUMABLY DOES NOT REFLECT AUTHOR VIEWS) (poem marked with cautionary 'post-it' note)