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Poem "Horehound Candy"

Published by "Orbis" Summer - Autumn 1986; Enitharmon Press 1991; "South (Profile)" October 2006

Drafts including final draft. Includes photocopy of letter from Peter Forbes, Southern Arts & Thamesdown Community Arts Writer in Residence, to Michael Henry regarding poems "The Stove-In Chest", "Peppercorn Rent", "Horehound Candy" and "Tijuana Brass"

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

Poem "Joint Honours"

Published by Enitharmon Press 1991; "Outposts" Spring 1994

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter from Stand Magazine 17 August 1987

Poem "Taberdar's Disease"

Published by "Oxford Poetry" Winter 1986 - 1987; Enitharmon Press 1991; "South (Profile)" October 2006

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Aston Down"

Published by "Encounter" April 1990; Enitharmon Press 1991

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter from Richard Mayne, Co-editor of "Encounter", to Michael Henry regarding the publication of "Aston Down" and his opinions of other rejected poems 19 August 1988

Poem "Scorebook"

Published by "Poetry Review" Winter 1987 - 1988; Enitharmon Press 1991

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter from Peter Forbes, Editor of "Poetry Review" to Michael Henry regarding publication of poems 5 October 1987

"Panto Sphinx" by Michael Henry

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 "Wordsmith"

Published by "TOPS" March 1981; Enitharmon Press 1988. Accepted by "Zeros"

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Handsel Monday"

Accepted by "Vision". Published by Enitharmon Press 1988. Awarded Commended in the Newbury Arts Workshop Poetry Competition 1985

Annotated final draft and results of the Newbury Arts Workshop Poetry Group Competition

Poem "Green Sickness"

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 "Grange Hollies"

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 "Half Orphan"

Published by "Canadian Author and Bookman" March 1979; "The Antigonish Review" Winter 1980; "Stride" Summer 1985; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes photocopy of the printed poem in "Canadian Author and Bookman"

Poem "Winter Warmup"

Published by "Tower Poetry Magazine" Winter 1981; "Stride" November 1982; Enitharmon Press 1988. Accepted by "Poetry Licence"

Annotated drafts

Poem "Left Footer"

Published by "Doors" May 1985; Enitharmon Press 1988. Accepted by "Beautify the Nation" and "The New Writer"

Annotated final draft

Poem "Slipper Chapel"

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

Final draft

Poem "Hail"

Published by "Quarry" Winter 1978; "Stride" September 1982; "Poetry Nottingham" Winter 1985; Enitharmon Press 1988. Accepted by "Tears in the Fence" and "Story Chest Anthologies"

Annotated drafts

Poem "Fin de Siècle"

Published by "Canadian Author and Bookman" December 1979; Enitharmon Press 1988; "Haiku Quarterley" Winter 199. Accepted by "Bizarre Angel"

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Brown Study"

Published by "South West Review" August 1982; "Bogg" Summer 1983; "Giant Steps" Winter 1983; "The Poetry Show" Spring 1988; KQBX 1985; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes photocopy of poem printed in "Lenten Visitor" and note from South West Arts to Michael Henry 5 May 1982

Poem "Poem for a Ghetto Blaster"

Published by "Iron" February 1985; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter from Peter Mortimer, Editor of "Iron Press", to Michael Henry regarding publishing two poems 28 January 1984

Poem "Second Début"

Published by "South West Review" November 1981; "Tower Poetry Magazine" Winter 1985; Enitharmon Press 1988. Accepted by "Sydelines"

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes photocopy of the printed poem in an unknown publication

Poem "Cloud Nine"

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 "Two Timer"

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

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Kitty Hawk"

Published by "Stride" September 1982; "Westwards" Spring 1988; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Peppercorn Rent"

Published by Enitharmon Press 1988. Winner of the Poetry Own Composition class of the Cheltenham Competitive Festival 1986

Annotated drafts. Includes adjudicator's notes from the Cheltenham Competitive Festival and a letter from Peter Forbes, Southern Arts & Thamesdown Community Arts Writer in Residence, to Michael Henry regarding the poems "The Stove-In Chest", "Peppercorn Rent", "Horehound Candy" and "Tijuana Brass" 24 June 1985

Poem "Sheep Market"

Published by "The Countryman" Autumn 1986; Enitharmon Press 1988

Final draft and photocopy of printed poem from "An Ocean in My Ear"

Poem "Stagnant Pond"

Published by "Litmus" Summer 1986; "Oxford Book of Sporting Literature: An Anthology" April 1987; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft. Includes letter from Laurie Smith, Editor of "Litmus", to Michael Henry regarding poems "Apricot Brittle", "Chinese Laundry" and "Stagnant Pond" 2 March 1984

Poem "Bar Sinister"

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 "Summer School"

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

Poem "Dutch Print"

Published by "Slow Domer" Autumn 1983; "The Polluted Pocket" Autumn 1986; "Third Half" February 1988; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Southern Comfort"

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 "Hush Puppy"

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 "Paper Dragon"

Published by "Idoemoe" Summer 1983; "Success" November 1983; "Poems for Hastings" 1986; "Doors" May 1986; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft

Poem "Cloud Cuckoo"

Published by "Nimbus" Summer 1980; Macmillan Spring 1986; Enitharmon Press 1988

Annotated drafts including final draft

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