Brian Patten
Scope and Contents
1. Postcard to Phil Short, Liverpool, postmarked 15 February 1966. 2. ‘Little Johnny’s confession’: poem. Section of page 2 of a text with directions for a recording, duplicated typescript with manuscript annotations. 1 f. 3. ‘A theme for various murders’: poem. Typescript. No date (published in 1966). 1 f. 4. ‘Dawn poem’: poem. Typescript, carbon copy. No date (published in 1966). 1 f. 5. Letter to Phil [Short], [Liverpool] , no date [docketed as answered on 1 June 1966]. 6. Letter to Robin [Ritzema], Liverpool, no date [docketed as relating to a letter 26 January 1967]. With ‘Extract from Atomic Adam’: prose, also incorporating a note from Patten to Ritzama, typescript, 3 ff. 7. Letter to Robin [Ritzema], Liverpool, bearing two poems, ‘All you can do finally’ and ‘When she wakes drenched from her sleep’, typescript, no date (poems published in 1967). 8. ‘Dream poem’: poem. Typescript. No date (published in 1967). 1 f. 9. Letter to Brian [Morse], Winchester, bearing two poems, ‘The necessary slaughter’ and ‘Nor the sun its selling power’, typescript, no date (poems published in 1968).
Creator
- From the Fonds: Solstice (Organization)
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