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MH/1/2 · Item · 1988
Part of Michael Henry Archive

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

MH/1/3 · Item · 1991
Part of Michael Henry Archive

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

Poem "Prairie Envoy"
MH/3/7 · File · c.1982, c.2001
Part of Michael Henry Archive

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"

Poem "Hanukah Bush"
MH/3/11 · File · c.1984
Part of Michael Henry Archive

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

Poem "Hush Puppy"
MH/4/9 · File · c.1981
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "Slow Domer" Spring 1981; "Tower Magazine" Summer 1981; "Sydelines" Summer 1983; "Rubleshed" Summer 1987; Enitharmon Press 1988; "South (Profile)" October 2006

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Southern Comfort"
MH/4/11 · File · 1983 - c.1984
Part of Michael Henry Archive

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

Poem "Bar Sinister"
MH/4/14 · File · 1985
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by Enitharmon Press 1988. Awarded the Honours Award at Cheltenham Competitive Festival 1985

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes adjudicator's notes for the Cheltenham Competitive Festival and a letter from Joy Hendy, Editor of "Chapman", to Michael Henry regarding the poem 12 March 1985

Poem "Two Timer"
MH/4/21 · File · c.1982
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "Monashee" Winter 1982 - 1983; "Iron" February 1985; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Cloud Nine"
MH/4/22 · File · c.1980 - c.1982
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "Monashee" Summer 1980; "Dowry" March 1982; "Allusions" March 1982; "New Hope International" October 1982; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Slipper Chapel"
MH/4/32 · File · c.1986
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "The Green Book" Summer 1986; Enitharmon Press 1988; "Cheltenham Poets 3"; "Building Jerusalem: Elegies on Parish Churches" 2016

Final draft

Poem "Grange Hollies"
MH/4/36 · File · c.1985
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "Encounter" July - August 1985; "Schools Poetry Review"; "Footnotes 61"; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes photocopies of printed poem in "Encounter" and "Footnote 61"

Poem "Green Sickness"
MH/4/39 · File · c.1983
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "Bull" Spring 1986; Enitharmon Press 1988. Awarded the Diploma for Excellence at the Scottish Open Poetry Competition 1983

Drafts including annotated final draft

Poem "Matinee"
MH/5/10 · File · c.1985
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "Acumen" October 1985; Enitharmon Press 1991

Annotated draft and final draft

Poem "Connemara Marble"
MH/5/48 · File · c.1984
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Accepted by "Flame". Published by "Purple Patch" Autumn 1984; Enitharmon Press 1991

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter from Geoff, "Purple Patch", to Michael Henry regarding publication of poem

Poem "Sleeping Partner"
MH/5/53 · File · 1985 - c.1986
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by Iron Press October 1986; Enitharmon Press 1991

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes two letters from Peter Mortimer, Editor of the Iron Press, to Michael Henry regarding publication of the poem 6 September 1985 and 12 March 1986

MH/6/1 · File · (c.2015) 2002 - 2015
Part of Michael Henry Archive

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

Poem "Lex Talionis"
MH/6/7 · File · c.1986 - 2001
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "Cheltenham Poets 3" Summer 1986; "Celebration: An Anthology of Poetry: Celebrating 30 Years of Cheltenham Poetry" Trimingham Press 1998; Enitharmon Press 2001

Annotated drafts including final draft

MH/6/10 · File · c.1996
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by "Other Poetry" Winter 1998; Enitharmon Press 2001. Commended at the Bournemouth International Open Poetry Competition 1996

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes results of the poetry competition

Poem "Dover's Powder"
MH/6/21 · File · c.1996 - c.2001
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published by Enitharmon Press 2001

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes critique form for the Writers' Forum Open Poetry Competition 1996

Poem "In September"
MH/7/3 · File · c.2004 - c.2008
Part of Michael Henry Archive

Published as "Haiku in September" in "Time Haiku" Spring 2004; Published as "In September" by Enitharmon Press 2008

Drafts including final draft