II.vii.3. Typescript drafts of poems collected in 'The Spirit Level',
1994-1995.
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| Summary: | Contains a title page, contents page, acknowledgements page and drafts of the poems 'The Rain Stick', 'To A Dutch Potter In Ireland', 'A Brigid's Girdle', 'Mint', 'A Sofa In The Forties', 'Keeping Going', 'Two Lorries', 'Damson', 'Weighing In', 'St. Kevin And The Blackbird', 'The Flight Path', 'Tollund' (draft dated September 1994), 'Mycenae Lookout', 'Remembered Columns', 'Clang and Contour', 'Poet's Chair', 'The Gravel Walks', 'The Swing', 'Four Finger Exercise: The Thimble' (collected as 'The Thimble')'Two Stick Drawings', 'The Butter-Print', 'A Call', 'The Errand', 'A Dog Was Crying To-Night In Wicklow Also', 'The Clay Pipes', 'An Architect', 'The Sharping Stone', Something Else' (collected as 'The Strand'), 'A Transgression', 'The Walk', 'At The Wellhead', 'At Banagher', 'Whitby-sur-Moyola', 'An Invocation', 'Postcript' and 'Remembered Columns'. These drafts were sent by Seamus Heaney to Bernard and Jane McCabe, prior to their publication. The draft of 'Remembered Columns' also contains a manuscript note from Heaney to the McCabes, dated 19 April 1995, in which he writes of sending them 'The heap of poems that are the next book's foundations'. |
| In collection: | McCabe Heaney Collection, 1979-2010 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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1994-1995.
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| Notes: | 'The Clay Pipes' (from the Irish by Cathal Ó Searcaigh) was published in 'Poetry and Audience' in March 1993 and in Ó Searcaigh's 'Homecomings' (1993); 'A Transgression' was collected in 'Opened Ground' (1994). Physical description: 70 pages; 3 folders. more |
| Arrangement: | Sub-fonds |
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II.vii.3. Typescript drafts of poems collected in 'The Spirit Level',
1994-1995.
| In Collection: | McCabe Heaney Collection, 1979-2010 |
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| Description: | Contains a title page, contents page, acknowledgements page and drafts of the poems 'The Rain Stick', 'To A Dutch Potter In Ireland', 'A Brigid's Girdle', 'Mint', 'A Sofa In The Forties', 'Keeping Going', 'Two Lorries', 'Damson', 'Weighing In', 'St. Kevin And The Blackbird', 'The Flight Path', 'Tollund' (draft dated September 1994), 'Mycenae Lookout', 'Remembered Columns', 'Clang and Contour', 'Poet's Chair', 'The Gravel Walks', 'The Swing', 'Four Finger Exercise: The Thimble' (collected as 'The Thimble')'Two Stick Drawings', 'The Butter-Print', 'A Call', 'The Errand', 'A Dog Was Crying To-Night In Wicklow Also', 'The Clay Pipes', 'An Architect', 'The Sharping Stone', Something Else' (collected as 'The Strand'), 'A Transgression', 'The Walk', 'At The Wellhead', 'At Banagher', 'Whitby-sur-Moyola', 'An Invocation', 'Postcript' and 'Remembered Columns'. These drafts were sent by Seamus Heaney to Bernard and Jane McCabe, prior to their publication. The draft of 'Remembered Columns' also contains a manuscript note from Heaney to the McCabes, dated 19 April 1995, in which he writes of sending them 'The heap of poems that are the next book's foundations'. |
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1994-1995.
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| Extent: | 70 pages; 3 folders. |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 49,602/24
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |
| Rights: | Subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act 2000, this collection remains in copyright. It is necessary to obtain the express permission of the copyright owner before reproducing any material from this collection. |