Layton, Irving, 1912-2006; Love poetry, Canadian -- 20th century; Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Includes corresondence, copies of poems, financial summaries for a special edition of Love Poems (copy of book available at the University of Saskatchewan's Layton Collection). Includes some original plates for the printing and hand corrected notes...
Layton, Irving, 1912-2006; Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Several drafts of poems, often showing evolution of the creation with several copies and reworkings of individual poems. Also includes a "foreward." Many early poems start hand-written and then become typescripts and any use both sizes of the...
Contents include: i) Holograph poems, in draft, in pencil, on back of dust jacket of The Complete Bible, with Apocrypha (Smith & Goodspeed). Poems are: "An Old Poet Complains" (3 drafts); "On a Certain Canadian Author"; "Riposte"; "Bargain"; "On...
Typescript and holograph drafts of poems from Rocky Mountain Poems. A map of “Rocky Mountains 1959.” Other poems: "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain" by Wallace Stevens
This letter is from the Florence Kirk collection at the University of Regina Archives and Special Collections. Kirk spent 18 years teaching English at Ginling College in Nanking (Nanjing), China. In Nanjing Kirk was witness to both the Japanese...
List of private publications. Cheque included. Letters about
anthology. Cheque included. Poems included: “Inland,” “The Woods No More,” “Adam,” “The
Vessel,” “The Journey,” “Creation,” “The Lovers,” “The Glass,”...
Typescript and handwritten poems prepared for submission and in draft form. 116 sheets. (Approximately half of them are digitized here, the remaining are in Part 2).
Correspondence, Poetry, American--20th century; Poetry, Canadian--20th century
Charles Bukowski to A. Purdy, 1965. Most of the correspondence pertains to autobiographical notes on Bukowski's drinking habits, his philosophy of life, and his literary work. Many of Bukowski's letters are 'decorated' with marking pen sketches....
Revised versions of earlier poems. The files numbered 9a. and 9b. contain revised versions of earlier poems, but there a few later poems also included. The majority are in typescript
The earliest publications that I've been able to trace, from 1961-2. Two poems in Canadian Forum, in Jan 1962 (p. 234) and Sept 1961( p. 126) along with copies of two letters to "Mr. Szumigalski" from the managing editor. And poems from three...
Layton, Irving, 1912-2006; Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Hand and Typewritten poems sometimes including several drafts of "Brandy and Miel," "The Dysphasiac," "Sunflight," "Mell," "The Fuck-Up," "Tropical Flowers," "Nature's na," "The Mocking Bird," "Sand Crab," "Return to Eden," "The Journey," "Eden,"...
Several iterations of poems, corrected typescript and holograph, of poems from Rivers Among Rocks. One page of an article, with lines underscored, in connexion with a poem. One poem written on Time subscription card. Some newspaper articles and...
Typescript and holograph drafts of poems from Flight Into Darkness. Some newspaper articles and pictures concerning some of the material of the poems. Lines included on stationary with A.M. Klein's and Leo Kennedy's names a top.
Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Loose sheets of draft poems. These unfinished and finished draft poems are handwritten and typewritten with corrections. Most of them seem to have been written during the late 1950s and early 1960s. 5a - 149 leaves.
Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Loose sheets of draft poems. These unfinished and finished draft poems are handwritten and typewritten with corrections. Most of them seem to have been written during the late 1950's and early 1960's.
Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Typescripts and holographs of poems which were discarded for publication. Most of these poems seem to have been written during the 1950's and early 1960's.
Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Loose sheets of unfinished and finished poems. Some are handwritten. Mostly typescript with penciled corrections. The majority of poems appear to have been written during the early 1960's. 148 pages (missing pages 14-18).
