Scope and Contents Two folders. Folder 1 (marked 'Notes miscellaneous'): Notes and essays dating from April 1950 to January 1951. Manuscript. Folder 2: A mixed bundle of typescript and manuscript poetry and prose sheets. Includes typescript of contents for Starting To Make A Tree, 'despatched to Hutchinsons . . . on October 2nd 1961', and typescript workings of The Memorial Fountain. The whole of this bundle has a 'cover' which is a typescript letter on pink paper, dated 8 August 1985, signed by Janet Burley...

Scope and Contents This bundle includes versions and revisions of: Hallucinations; Metamorphoses; Homage to Joe Sullivan; 'Three Early Pieces' (1953-1954), and 'Stopped Frames and Set Pieces'. Also includes the title page only for A Sort of Visitor. A play for radio by Barbara Fisher; a review of Gael Turnbull's 'Twenty Words - Twenty Days'; Circle Press eventual publication, Neighbours, We'll Not Part Tonight!; several sheets dated 1957, or 1958 which were sent to Gael Turnbull, and Cid Corman; 'Glenthorne...

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Brown A3 envelope containing two sets of page proofs for the 1971 Fulcrum Press editions of Matrix, and The Cut Pages. Both proofs marked up by Roy Fisher in either pink or red ink.

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Pamphlet. [8] leaves, side-stapled, typed on rectos only. Given by Roy Fisher to Gael Turnbull, and returned by Jill Turnbull after Gael's death.

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Pamphlet. [9] leaves, side-stapled, typed on rectos only. Colophon reads: ‘This is Number 1 of an edition of one copy signed by the author and inscribed to the dedicatee with New Year wishes for 1967.’ Roy Fisher sig. and ‘Gael Turnbull’, plus the date, ‘30.xii.66’ written in black ink. Given by Roy Fisher to Gael Turnbull, and returned by Jill Turnbull after Gael's death.

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Pale blue, stiff card folder into which the loose leaves are inserted, and contains leaves 1–77. On title page: ‘One of four copies made December 1969’. Inscribed in black ink: ‘for Gael / Christmas 1969—Roy’.Given by Roy Fisher to Gael Turnbull, and returned by Jill Turnbull after Gael's death.

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Pale blue, stiff card folder into which the loose leaves are inserted. This is the second half of The Collected Uncollected Poems and contains leaves 78–128. Given by Roy Fisher to Gael Turnbull, and returned by Jill Turnbull after Gael's death.

Scope and Contents Buff coloured folder containing assorted typescript and manuscript items including: a bundle of typescript pages fronted by a letter from Roy Fisher to Stuart and Deirdre Montgomery dated 26 September, 1970, explaining and describing Matrix, Collected Uncollected, and Comedies, some poems from which are included in the 14 leaves that follow; a review by Roy Fisher of Richard Poirier's Mailer; two versions of Roy Fisher's 'Note on Matrix'; 'Extracts from Poetry Now, BBC third programme, 14th...

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Folder containing two early typescripts: City. 24 loose leaves. Unmarked, undated; Then Hallucinations City II. [12] leaves, side-stapled, typed on rectos only onto various paper stock. Manuscript corrections throughout. The title page written in manuscript.

Scope and Contents A folder containing: 6 single poems on various paper stocks; a bundle of poems with a covering letter from Michael Horowitz, stamped with the New Departures letterhead; ‘starting, no telling where it may end’ [first line]. 6p.; ‘Wonders of Obligation’. 7 leaves; ‘The Red and the Black’. 5 leaves; ‘Irreversible’. 3 versions (one version typed on good quality paper, together with other single poems); ‘A poem to be watched’. 2 versions; ‘At Cinderhill’. 2 versions; ‘A Modern Story’. 3 versions;...

Scope and Contents Two folders. Folder 1: a folded sheet of paper with four scribbled poems including 'Routine Check'; a ten-leaf typrescript with manuscript corrections which may be in response to interview questions about City; a two-leaf typescript poem, 'Mauberley The Second', with some manuscript corrections though not in Roy Fisher's hand. 'Wagnerizmous' typed in top-right of both pages; a thirteen-leaf typescript beginning, 'In Autumn the mist is trapped in the hollows between the hills.' Folder 2: An...

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Copy of the typescript of A Furnace with manuscript corrections, in a brown envelope postmarked 'Manchester, 23.4.85', and with a BBC stamp.

Scope and Contents File 1 ('marked Script 1993') contains rough printouts of each poem that appears in the collection, with corrections, revisions and manuscript notes relating to where each poem had previously appeared. File 2 contains: Roy Fisher's copy of the printer's proofs (32 A3 sheets folded in the middle) with a photograph of Roy Fisher at the front; a letter signed 'Valerie' dated 17.7.96; a folder containing the programme and brochures for the Birmingham Readers & Writers Festival for 1994; a...

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Folder containing a manuscript version in blue/black ink, corrected and annotated, of The Ship's Orchestra written on lined paper. Includes a piece of pink blotting paper.

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Folder containing an undated typescript of The Cut Pages (34 numbered leaves, plus 4 prelim. leaves); loose-leaf ms titled 'On the Cut Pages' (42 leaves); a typed version of 'On the Cut Pages' with Roy Fisher's explanation of the work on the final leaf (34 leaves, plus 1).

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Folder of sheets (various paper stock) with notes, workings out, doodles, etc., includes versions of ‘Professor Fisher’s Reversals: Being a Song-Book for the Saloon of the Refused and for Jonathan Williams’.

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Folder containing a gathering of typescripts, manuscripts, and early computer print-outs of poems (mostly undated, but the latest date is September, 1989). Possibly for a Collected.

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Folder marked 'Radials'. Contains: 'Diversions'—14 leaves, typescript on foolscap paper. A sequence of twenty numbered poems; ‘Body Time’—5 leaves, typescript; ‘The Tourists’ Window’—1 leaf, typescript; ‘Inscriptions for Bluebeard’s Castle’ (for Ronald King)—2 leaves, typescript.

Scope and Contents Contains: 1 manuscript leaf containing rough draft of a course report, ‘Poetry & Prose, August 1–6’; 1 manuscript leaf containing rough draft of application to the WMA for funding for a jazz and poetry evening organised by the NAP; 1 manuscript leaf containing a poem, first line: ‘The maidens came’; 1 manuscript leaf containing an exercise, first line: ‘I am not afraid of writing a great poem.’; 1 news cutting stuck on to one leaf: ‘The course of nature. Plaintive call of the tit. From a...

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Folder containing: Loose typscript and manuscript poems; a bundle of print-out leaves for a recording including top sheet, 'City Poems - Running Order', then blocks of text with ms additions and corrections by Roy Fisher, explaining the work, plus two b/w passport photographs attached; a memorial to Raymond Williams; a memorial to Asa Benveniste; photocopied review by Siân Hughes from an unknown journal of A Furnace; copy of 'A Statement' on the pursuit of poetry (early 1990s).