File BA1/4 - Notes and drafts

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BA1/4

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Notes and drafts

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  • 1996-2011 (Creation)

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1 bundle.

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Compositions, notes, copies of articles, booklets and press cuttings accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis in the course of preparing for workshops, projects, publications and other literary work, including manuscript and typescript drafts of poems (‘Palaestra di poeti’, ‘Lippizaners’, ‘City Safari’, ‘The Love of Furniture’, ‘Field Guide to Dementia’, ‘The Feeder’, ‘Murmuration’, ‘No Sparrow Ode’, ‘Imaginary Walks in Istanbul’, ‘Maen Hir’, and ‘Marwnad’) with manuscript annotations, draft essays (‘Return to Girton’ and ‘Dancing in the Dark’), material relating to subjects including depression and the writing of poetry and prose, a copy of a draft review of her poetry, a photocopy of a letter and poem by her published in Poetry Review, and a printout of an article on the human brain from the website of University of Liverpool Centre for Poetry and Science.

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  • English
  • Welsh

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English and Welsh

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Further versions of some of the poems in this file are in BA1/1, and draft copies of 'Sparrow Tree' are in BA3/7.

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Some of the poems in this file were published in Gwyneth Lewis, Sparrow Tree (Bloodaxe Books; Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011).

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  • Text: Gwyneth Lewis Papers BA1/4 (Box 14)