File BA1/1 - Sparrow Tree, A Hospital Odyssey, and other poems

Annotated typescript and manuscript drafts of poems written by Gwyneth Lewis for publication in journals and in her collections published as Sparrow Tree, A Hospital Odyssey, Zero Gravity and Parables and Faxes, and also for broadcast on BBC Radio, some of them under more than one working title, including ‘A Hospital Odyssey’, ‘Aeolian Harp’, ‘Alternative Island’, ‘Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau, Abertawe’, ‘Apology to Peter Porter’, ‘Appointment’, ‘Aran’, ‘Arthur’s Talk with the Eagle’, ‘As Long as you Want / Improvisations on Sappho’, ‘Basic Knitting’, ‘Birder’, ‘Blue Tit / Titmouse / Tit’, ‘Bow Tie / Bowtie’, ‘Bricks in Bars’, ‘Broken Plates’, ‘Broken Star’, ‘Cân yn y Cywair Lleddf’, ‘Crazy Quilt’, ‘Crosses and Losses’, ‘Crosses’, ‘Diagonal Triangles’, ‘Double Wedding Ring’, ‘Elegy for Shambo’, ‘Epistle to C P Snow’, ‘Experimental Knitting / Applied Mathematics’, ‘Field Guide to Dementia’, ‘Finches / What finches say ad nauseam’, ‘Fractals’, ‘Glas’, ‘Gull’, ‘Heroine’, ‘Hike’, ‘Homecoming’, ‘Horizon with People’, ‘Hosiery’, ‘How to knit a poem’, ‘Humming Bird Project / Project Joy’, ‘Hypnosis Knitting’, ‘Imaginary Walks in Istanbul’, ‘Inheritance’, ‘Late Starter’, ‘Lattice’, ‘Log Cabin’ / ‘Barn Raising Variation (Crib quilt)’, ‘Love Poem’, ‘Lundy’, ‘Map’, ‘Memorial’, ‘Murmuration’, ‘My Wales’, ‘Nightingale / Outside Broadcast (for Mark Cocker)’, ‘Nine Patch’, ‘No design’, ‘No Sparrow Ode’, ‘No Sparrow’, ‘Nuclear Family’, ‘Ocean Waves (for AJ)’, ‘Old Maid’s Puzzle’, ‘One and a Half Square Miles’, ‘Our Body’, ‘Pattern Pornography’, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Pine Trees (Crib Quilt)’, ‘Praise birds’, ‘Prayer for Horizon’, ‘Prologue from Zero Gravity’, ‘Quantum Island’, ‘Quilting for Childless Women’, ‘Railroad Crossing’, ‘Remission Flamenco’, ‘Remission Sevillanas’, ‘Reply to the Haka’, ‘Riddle: Definition of a Harp’, ‘Roman Strip[e] Variation (Crib quilt)’, ‘Roman Stripe’, ‘Sarcophagus / Mausoleum’, ‘Sea Virus’, ‘Secret Report from the Pharmaceutical Lab’, ‘Silk Knitting’, ‘Sliver’, ‘Small Brown Job’, ‘Sol and Nemesis / Nemesis (for Tsevi Mazeh)’, ‘Some common Invaders’, ‘Spectrum’, ‘Speculation / Sparrows / Fall of a Sparrow’, ‘Splinter / Splinters / Zeal’, ‘Stonechat (for Richard Scorer, psychiatrist)’, ‘Sunken Garden at Radcliffe / Sunken Garden’, ‘Taxonomy’, ‘Tension Square’, ‘The Family Knitting Book’, ‘The Feeder (In memory of Megan Tanner / Elegy for an Aunt)’, ‘The Sparrow Tree / What Sparrows Might Mean’, ‘The Symbolism of Ancient Sweaters’, ‘Thirty-Six Patch Variation (Crib quilt)’, ‘Trees of California’, ‘Triangles’, ‘Tumbling Blocks’, ‘Unnamed Pattern (Crib quilt)’, ‘Voice / Llais’, ‘Warning’, ‘What Do Birds Say?’, ‘What the red kite saw’, ‘Y pwynt’, ‘Zebra’ and others, with related notes. Also included are: manuscript copies of an untitled poetry / drama / musical script by Gwyneth Lewis about dolphins in Cardigan Bay; notes and literary quotations collected by her for ‘A Hospital Odyssey’, and also on quilt vocabulary; a photocopy of an article by her (‘Letter to the poet I might I might have been’); copies of emails to her concerning social and literary matters, notably the possible publication of parts of ‘A Hospital Odyssey’ in the Paris Review; typescript copies of poems by members of the Girton Poetry Group; and a family postcard.