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Michael Henry Archive
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Michael Henry Archive

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  • c.1900s - 2016

Draft poetry, correspondence and publications relating to the poet Michael Henry

Henry, Michael

Poem "Footnote to History"

Published by Enitharmon Press 2001 and 2017

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letters from Stephen Stuart Smith and Lawrence Sail regarding the inclusion of the poems "Footnote to History" and "Boulevard Theatre" in an anthology to celebrate 50 years of Enitharmon Press

Poem "Boulevard Theatre"

Published by "The Observer" 20 December 1992; Enitharmon Press 2008 and 2017

Draft and final annotated draft. Includes photocopy of a photograph of a clown with the annotation "first inspiration for "Boulevard Theatre" workshop at Uley Spring 1992 given by Tony Curtis. Touchstones 1"; Copy of "The Observer" with the poem; Note from Kate Kellaway with reply from Michael Henry regarding publication of the poem in "The Observer"; Letters from Stephen Stuart-Smith and Lawrence Sail regarding inclusion of the poem in the anthology celebrating 50 years of Enitharmon Press

Poem "Genius Loci at Queen's"

Renamed "Noughth Week"

Published by Five Seasons Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes note from Michael Laskey, Editor of "Smiths Knoll"

Poem "St Martin in the Field"

Published by "Revised [?] & Paperback" Winter 1987; Enitharmon Press 1991; Bloomsbury ["Building Jerusalem: Elegies on Parish Churches"] 2016. Highly commended by Cheltenham Poetry Society

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes programme for the launch of "Building Jerusalem" at Cambridge University Library on 19 October 2016

Reviews of "Footnote to History"

Photocopy of "Gloucestershire Echo" article c.2001; Photocopy of review by Paul Groves in "Poetry Review" Spring 2002; Letter from John Cotton 30 July 2002; Photocopy of review by R G Felton in "South" October 2003; Photocopy of review by Sally Baker in "The North" Summer 2004; Printed email from Kevin Gardner, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Baylor University, Texas, 5 March 2015

Reviews of "Bureau of the Lost and Found"

Includes printed emails from Michael Hulse, Jane Sasanow and Roger Garfitt; letter from "Glenn" regarding typesetting the book; printed webpage of review from "Tears in the Fence"; photocopy of review published in "Magma" Issue 61

Poem "Silver Sovereign Holder"

Published by Five Seasons Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes a sterling silver sovereign holder, Walker & Hall, Chester, 1907

Poem "The Unofficial Audio Guide"

Published by Fives Seasons Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes a leaflet for "Stasi: Power and Banality: Permanent exhibition at the "Runde Ecke" Museum"

Poem "Contact Sheet"

Published by Five Seasons Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final drafts. Includes newspaper cutting of a book review of "Magnum Contact Sheets"; letter from Michael Henry's cousin that inspired the poem

Poem "A Study in Scripture"

Published by "The Warwick Review" March 2014; Five Season Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter and note from Michael Hulse regarding publication of the poem in "The Warwick Review"

Poem "Newcastle Brown"

Published by Five Seasons Press 2014. Long listed for The Virginia Warbey Poetry Prize 2010

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "The Lancet"

Published by "Weyfarers" October 2013; Five Seasons Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final draft

"Bureau of the Lost and Found" by Michael Henry

Published by Five Seasons Press, Hereford. Signed. Includes the poems:

Colophon for my Father
Introducing Doctor Steinrücke
The Patella Hammer
Dinner at the Adelphi
My Father's Report on Toulouse-Lautrec
Celestial Surgeon
The Manx Kitten
Clothes Maketh Man
The Lancet
Tinker, Tailor, Surgeon
The Lumber Garden
Suicide Watch
St Vitus's Dance
The Chinese Screen
Medical Map Restorer
The Typewriter Tuner
Contact Sheet
The Memorialist
Looking for Granddad
My Belgian Grandfather
A Franco-Prussian Alliance
Acte de Mariage
The Invisible Man
Bureau of the Lost and Found
Blood Meridian
Sage of Siedlinghausen
Rembrant's Tronies
Those Strange German Sayings
Tree of Man
Silver Sovereign Holder
Has Silver Airway
Vade Mecum
Two Teaspoonfuls of Latin
A Study in Scripture
Winchester St Cross
Bitter Sloes
Shakespeare Cliff
Samphire Hoe
Supermoon 19
The Measure of Blackberries
The Blossom Tree
Realia from Strasbourg
Random of Days
Paulownia Mania
Canard au Sang
Chicken Takeaway
The Sadness of Dogs
Cabinet of Curiosities
Salterley Grange
The Shakespeherian Rag
On the Rocks
On Milton's Birthday
Poem in Pluperfect Tense
Post-Its
Ascent of Cader Idris
Everton Mint
Go as a Pilgrim
Strictly Come Dying
Cimetière du Montparnasse
Square du Temple
The Unofficial Audio Guide
The Reluctant Travellers
A White Untruth
Psalm to the Arctic
The Teacherage
A Homecoming Rain
The Great Snow
The Crimson Sash
Hook on the Hoof
The Holy Icons of Drumheller
A Potlatch Quarter
The Greely Airshow
Thought du Jour
Going East Without You
Amor Omnia Vincit
L'Auura
Tired Ghost
Genius Loci at Queen's
Dating for Modern Linguists
Coldingham Sands
My Uncle's Cine Film
Funeral Kiss
Greater Expectations
Fresh Air
The Third Umpire
The Colour of Mourning
On Whose Side Was Love
Newcastle Brown
At Suicidal Point
Apprentice Piece
Siberian Wallflower
No Poem for Old Men
Digital Alchemy
Pièce Montée

Poem "That Shakespeherian Rag"

Published by Five Seasons Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter from Peter Mortimer, Editor of "Iron Press", discussing several poems including "That Shakespeherian Rag"

Poem "Dinner at the Adelphi"

Published by "Weyfarers" March 2013; Five Seasons Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes "M S D S Annual Dinner" pamphlet 11 December 1935; note from Jeffery Wheatley, Editor of "Weyfarers", regarding publication

Poem "Vade Mecum"

Published by "Tears in the Fence" Winter 2013 - 2014; Five Seasons Press 2014

Annotated drafts including final draft

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