[Eleven poems] / compiled by Wendy Allen.
- F3565
- Item
- [198-]?
Handwritten poems, some signed by John Manifold, others not, but appear to be in the same hand. One poem might have been written by another person.
Poems:
To an incompletely remembered mistress
Sonnet for a Caravaggio lady
Resignation with a sonambulist
Ex Africa ....
Sparrows, a flower-swallow and Captain Cook's tea tree (Trochaic sonnet)
Plasticarol for a plastichristmas
Death indefinitely postponed in the old men's home
Death in the old men's home
Warning against loving too much
[Poem beginning with the words] Nurse Exe-Wye, that teetotal bidge...
[Poem beginning] Why Kampuchea? What about Timor? (This poem is not like the others, so may be by another person).
Manifold, J. S. (John Streeter), 1915-1985