Draft poetry, correspondence and publications relating to the poet Michael Henry
Henry, MichaelPublished by KQBX Press, Southampton and Poole. Signed. Includes the poems:
Turf Accountant
Sand Dollar
Pukka Sahib
Honor System
Brown Study
Prairie Envoy
Park Picnic
Canada Goose
St Martin's Summer
Hanukah Bush
Record Rap
Paperhanger's Measure
Gentleman's Relish
Cold Sentence
Teacher's Pet
Halfway House
Ice Floes
Lenten Visitor
Published by Enitharmon Press, Petersfield. Signed. Includes the poems:
Occam's Razor
Kangaroo Start
Blue Vinney
Cloud Cuckoo
Street Name
Paper Dragon
Credit Union
Hush Puppy
Tohu Bohu
Southern Comfort
Dutch Print
Summer School
Bar Sinister
Stagnant Pond
Sheep Market
Short Commons
Peppercorn Rent
Kitty Hawk
Correspondence Wallah
Two Timer
Cloud Nine
Lombardy Poplar
British Bulldog
Second Début
Poem for a Ghetto Blaster
Brown Study
Fin de Siècle
Saint James's Way
University of the Air
Hail
Slipper Chapel
Left Footer
Winter Warmup
Published by Enitharmon Press, Petersfield. Signed. Includes the poems:
Long Quarter
Medea's Cauldron
Quarter Century Club
Aston Down
Scorebook
Taberdar's Disease
Joint Honours
Pheasant Covert
Matinée
St Martin in the Field
Horehound Candy
Chapel Trifle
Inn of Court
Model for a Monet
Shepherd's Warning
Panto Sphinx
Rosh Hashanah
Buchan's Cold Spell
Valium Picnic
Boarder's Exeat
Iceland Poppy
Hawthorn Effect
Bargain Basement
School Janitor
Hominy Grit
Landed Immigrant
Sitting Lessee
Papa's Menu
Bucket Shop
The Old Man on the Blackboard
Love's Inner Album
Clothes Maiden
Solander Box
Closure Motion
Motion Sickness
Coronation Cushion
School Shakespeare
A Good Story
Shotten Herring
Cream Tea
Room Service
Milk Run
Box Social
Snatch Picture
Pelion and Ossa
Maynooth Catechism
Tijuana Brass
Connemara Marble
Grey Lilac
Witch Hazel
Party Faithful
Pillow Talk
Sleeping Partner
European Express
Published by Enitharmon Press, London. Signed. Includes the poems:
Horses at Edge Hill Station
The First Crusade
Honour System
Red Currant Jelly
Chelsea Physic Garden
Lex Talionis
A Glass-Stoppered Bottle
House of Doctors
My Grandfather's Scalpel
Pigeons of Hafodymyn
Merchant Ivory Poem
Train Band, 1930
World's End, Clwyd
The Lieutenant's Account
For the Missing
Summer of Thirty-Nine
The Wealth of Poland
Matters of No Small Importance
Civilisation
Dover's Powder
Number 77 D.S.C.
Breaking the Code
Paraphrasing Churchill
Blackout
The Card-Players
Commonplace Book
Dicing for Marks
Rommel Roulette
Hospital Pass
Jump Sunday
Corporal Violet
Distressed British Seaman
Implements of War
S-Block
Ringing the Bell with a 'D'
Demob Suit Hero
Gentleman's Relish
Lulworth Skipper
Honesty Box
Franciscan Uncle
Welsh Tweed
House Charge
No Need to Let Us Know
Distant Relative
Housewife
Phantom Bride
Replenish the Earth
Badges in the Snow
Lobb's Farm
Let It Stand
Slow Train to Lime Street
Dead Sea Scrolls
Cabaret
Moving
Previous Addressee
Small Is Beautiful
Quarter Century Club
Cobelligerent
Footnote to History
On the Troopship
The Welsh Pox
Charter Party
At the Crematorium
Tontine
The Prisoner
Published by Enitharmon Press, London. Signed. Includes the poems:
Boulevard Theatre
In September
Call No Country Blessed
Haiku
End of the Affair
Cranefly of the North
For Oliver
Old England Fall
Dunstanburgh Heugh
Snowdrop Sunday
Please Don't Disturb
Waiting for Oxbridge
Budapest
The Golden Bauhinia
The Stroke of Midnight
Monomatapa Hotel
Diamond Paviour
A Chrysoprase Necklace
The Train Was On Time
Ohrwurm
Schellenbaum
A Small Town in Germany
Sixty Shades of Black
Rundflug
Year of the Phoenix
Goodbye to Berlin
Vaut le Voyage
Ship's Manifest
Command Performance
Prairie Justice
The Consultant
The Divinity Tapes
Night of the Iguana
Prairie Envoy
The Hat People
A Geographical Cure
Spirit-Houses on the Highway
Anomimo Inglés
Cave Painting at Altamira
Universida Pontifica
A Sagittarian Abroad
Château de Montflaux
La Canicule
Château Fever
La Grande Brocante
Nizza La Bella
Custom of the Country
Fortnight in Settignano
Medici Florin
Villa di Nerezza
Domani Rosa
Nuns in Milan Cathedral
Snapshot of Assisi
George Orwell's Birthday
Bitten by the Muse
Atelier
Wormwood
And Now There Are Seven
House with the Green Shutters
Requiem in Tangiers
Haiku
Your Declaration of Independence
To My Daughter Overseas
People Carrier
Haiku
Bush Telegraph
Chicken Bulawayo
On Being Celibate of You
Reading the Runes
Holystone
Seigneur de Terrasse
Back-Seat Poet
Corpus
Blue Moon
Critique of Pure Love
Pain
Birth of the Ark Royal
Not Distant But Time
Cotswolds
The Aston Farm Stampede
The Washpool
Ageing Hippie
In Perfect Alignment
Battle of Britain
Waking the Dead
Symphony in Static
April's Next Top Model
The Knowledge
The Gorse Fields
Sorry-Go-Round
Anatomist's Snuff-Box
Bluebell Time
Security Blanket
Hands-On
In Granite Sparkle
Whistling for Blue
From the Foreshore
Traeth
The Night Fisherman
Little Egret
Oystercatcher
Berck-Page
Pompey Chimes
Boy on Beach
Par Avion
Inhaling for England
Spring-Heeled Jack
The Swimming Dachshunds
The Crash Team
Tail-Enders
On Utah Beach
Sword in the Frieze
My Mother's Linguaphone Records
In the Thick of It
The Hokey Cokey
The Music of Silence
Footnote to a Footnote
In Times of Carnival
Nacht und Nebel
In the War Museum
A Tiny Thing
Herodotus de Nos Jours
Teaching Them French
Teaching with Tourette's
Kidology
Prunes de Damas
The Jurassic Philosophers
Death of a Supply Teacher
Caduceus for My Grandfather
Gone with the Wind
Wrestling with Raphael
On Tennyson Down
Dream Catcher
The Vegreville Road
Peccavi
Nappe de Brouillard
Searchlight Tattoo
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
Number 64. Includes article "Poet in Profile: Michael Henry"
Volume 89 number 2. Includes poem "Cambrian Rain" by Michael Henry
Volume 92 number 3. Includes poem "Château de Montflaux" by Michael Henry
Volume 93 number 4. Includes poem "Bitten by the Muse" by Michael Henry
Published by The Hippocrates Prize in association with Top Edge Press. Includes Michael Henry's poem "The Patella Hammer" which won first prize in the Open Category
Published in "The Guardian". Discusses The Hippocrates Prize 2011 and includes Michael Henry's poem "The Patella Hammer" which won first prize in the Open Category
Features the poem "Salterley Grange" by Michael Henry. Includes loose sheet "Readers for the Launch of South 52" including Michael Henry
Volume 77 number 2. Includes poem "Cream Tea" by Michael Henry
Volume 77 number 4. Includes profile of Michael Henry in the "New British Poets" section alongside his poems "Scorebook", "A Good Story" and "Plaster Saint"
Volume 80 number 3. Includes poem "Solander Box" by Michael Henry
Volume 82 number 3. Includes poem "La Vecchia" by Michael Henry
Volume 85 number 2. Includes poem "Siberian Wallflower" by Michael Henry
Volume 86 number 2. Includes poem "Searchlight Tattoo" by Michael Henry
Volume 87 number 2. Includes poem "A Glass-Stoppered Bottle" by Michael Henry
Volume 88 number 2. Includes poem "Call No Country Blessed" by Michael Henry
Two letters from James Sale, The KQBX Press, to Michael Henry regarding the publication of "Lenten Visitor" 30 April 1984 and 2 July 1984
Letter from James Sale, The KQBX Press, to Michael and Tricia Henry regarding reviews of "Lenten Visitor" 11 June 1986
Three letters from Stephen Stuart-Smith to Michael Henry regarding future publication with Enitharmon Press 5 May, 2 June and 23 June 1986
Photocopy of typed review of "Lenten Visitor" by Peter Forbes, Editor of "Poetry Review" c.1986
Photocopy of review of "Lenten Visitor" by John Lancaster. Published in "Iron" February - May 1987
Published by "Monashee" Winter 1979; "Interface" March 1979; "Orbis" Spring 1987; The KQBX Press December 1985
Drafts with annotations including final draft. Also includes letter from James Roebuck, Edmonton Journal, to Michael Henry regarding second prize in the Poetry category of The Journal's 1978 Literary Awards Competition, 16 June 1978
Published by "Poetry Nottingham" Spring 1984; "The Antigonish Review" Spring 1985; The KQBX Press December 1985
Third prize in the Lake Ashe Competition
Annotated drafts including final draft
Published by "New Hope International" Winter 1981 - 1982; "The Antigonish Review" Summer 1982; "Poetry Nottingham" Winter 1983; "Doors" May 1984; The KQBX Press December 1985
Annotated drafts including final draft
Published by "Litmus" Summer 1983; "Giant Steps" Winter 1983; The KQBX Press December 1985
Drafts including final annotated draft
Published by "Distant Echo" August 1983; "Giant Steps" Winter 1983; The KQBX Press December 1985; Enitharmon Press 2001
Photocopy of final annotated draft and printed version in "Footnote to History" 2001
Published by "Event" January 1980; "Counterpoint" Winter 1980 - 1981; "Stride" March 1983; "Tears in the Fence" Winter 1984 - 1985; The KQBX Press December 1985
Annotated drafts including final draft
Published by "First Time" Spring 1984; The KQBX Press December 1985
Fourth prize Hartings Competition
Annotated drafts including final draft
Published by The Tower Poetry Society Winter 1979; "The Antigonish Review" Winter 1980; "Candelabrum" June 1980; The KQBX Press December 1985; "South (Profile)" October 2006
Annotated drafts
Published by [?] June 1977; "Quarry" December 1978; "Slow Runner" Spring 1981; "Sepia" June 1982; "Start" March - April 1985; The KQBX Press December 1985
Annotated drafts
Published by "Resurgence" November - December 1980; "Tower Magazine" Winter 1980 - 1981; "New Hope International" Winter 1981 - 1982; The KQBX Press December 1988; "South (Profile)" October 2006
Annotated drafts and photocopy of published version from unknown publication
Published by "The Countryman" Summer 1984; "Writer's Own Magazine" Autumn 1984; The KQBX Press 1985
Includes final draft and letter from the Editor of "The Countryman" regarding publication 27 April 1983
Published by "Sepia" Autumn 1984; The KQBX Press 1985
Four final drafts with annotations
Published by "[?] Steps" Winter 1983; The KQBX Press 1985
Three drafts with annotations
Published by "Weyfarers" April 1983; "Giant Steps" Winter 1983; The KQBX Press December 1985
Photocopy of final draft with annotations and photocopy of version published in "Footnote to History" 2001
Published by "South West Review" August 1982; "Bogg" Summer 1983; "Giant Steps" Winter 1983; The KQBX Press 1985
Photocopy of final draft with annotations and photocopy of version with annotation published in "An Ocean in My Ear" 1988
Published by "Graffiti" September 1982; "Poetry Nottingham" Summer 1985; The KQBX Press 1985; "Tower Poetry Magazine" Summer 1985; Enitharmon Press in "After the Dancing Dogs" 2001; "South" October 2006
Final draft with annotations and photocopy of version published in "After the Dancing Dogs"
Published by "Monashee" Summer 1982; "Slow [?]" Autumn 1983; The KQBX Press December 1985
Annotated drafts including final draft
Published by "Success" Autumn 1981; "Poetry Nottingham" Winter 1984; "Tower Poetry Magazine" Winter 1986; The KQBX Press December 1985
Drafts with annotations including final draft
Photocopy of review by Graham Mort published in "Poetry Review" Winter 1988 - 1989 and photocopy of review by Duncan C Curry published in "The North"
Published by "Encounter" February 1986; Enitharmon Press 1988
Annotated final draft
Accepted by "Origins". Published by "Krax" Spring 1996; "First Time" Autumn 1984; Enitharmon Press 1988; "South (Profile)" October 2006
Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter from Peter Mortimer, Editor of Iron Press, to Michael Henry regarding the poems "Watering Hole", "Curtain Lecture", "Porterhouse Steak" and "Southern Comfort" 17 April 1983
Published by "Slow Domer" Autumn 1983; "The Polluted Pocket" Autumn 1986; "Third Half" February 1988; Enitharmon Press 1988
Annotated drafts including final draft
Published by "T O R S" April 1981 [highly commended]; "New Hope International" October 1982; "Monashee" Winter 1983; Enitharmon Press 1988. Accepted by "Poetic Licence"
Annotated drafts including final draft