- CA UVICARCH SC009-1996-051-1
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Part of George Barker collection
Black notebook, 20x13 cm, 76 leaves, n.d.
Part of George Barker collection
Black notebook, 20x13 cm, 76 leaves, n.d.
Part of George Barker collection
At Thurgarton Church. (ca. 1968-1970) (Published by Trigram Press: London, 1969)
Part of George Barker collection
Blue notebook, approx. 15x10 cm. (ca. 1968)
Towards the middle of notebook are drafts of a different version of the poem At Thurgarton Church, with variants (15 pp.). Also included is "Letters to the Dead" (12 pp.) addressed "To Robert Colquhoun" (1914-1962). In addition, there are comments on poetry and epigrams on poets including: Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender, Roy Fuller, A. Alvarez, Cecil, Eliot, Louis, MacNeice, Kathleen Raine, Middleton Murray, David Gascoygne, Dylan Thomas, A.S. Frazer, John Betjeman, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Robert Lowell, Nabokov, Richard Wilbur, Roethke, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin and Ezra Pound.
Part of George Barker collection
Blue notebook, approx. 15x10 cm. (ca. 1968)
An essay, "Speculations on the Art of Poems". (64 pp.) dealing with Melville's "Moby Dick", Andre Gide, Yeats, and others.
Part of George Barker collection
MS in grey paper cover, 26x21 cm (1970)
On cover: "What is Mercy and a Voice G.B. 31.1.70 / Bintry House", signed, also on title page: "George Barker '70" Typed MS corrected, with variant holo. versions in by George Barker of this poem. 7 leaves.
MS in red cloth bound notebook
Part of George Barker collection
MS in red cloth bound notebook. 22x14 cm, (ca. 1968)
On title page: Poems for Children. The notebook consists of holo. drafts of poems, with corrections, 30 pp. [poems later published in To Aylsham Fair, Faber, 1970].
MS in blue cloth bound notebook
Part of George Barker collection
MS in blue cloth bound notebook. 22x14 cm (1969)
On title page: "To Aylsham Fair /Children's Poems /Spring & Summer 1969/Bintry House GB". Additional holo. drafts and corrections of poems for that title, 65 pp.
Part of George Barker collection
MS in red folio. 35x23 cm (ca. 1969)
Typescript with holo. corrections of To Aylsham Fair, 74 pp. The unnumbered pages appear to be variant versions of the numbered pages. The inside of back flyleaf has a sketch of a church by Barker.
Green sketchbook with Barker drawings
Part of George Barker collection
Green sketchbook with Barker drawings. 30x23 cm.
Most sketches in black ink.
Part of George Barker collection
"Drawings /GB 70" (10 sketches)
Title written on folded poster, "Doves in the 70's", used by Barker as a portfolio for 30x40 cm loose sketches.