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Children. 5. [sequence poetry]

Booklet, ten leaves, comprised of ten typescript poems, stapled together with a lightweight white card cover, and handwritten title and number 5 on the front cover. Each poem has date on the page. Poems are:

  • Nothing a child does (August 1970).
  • For Hazim Abdullah (d. June 1963) (August 1963).
  • Lesson in mine (May 1967), with handwritten emendation.
  • Miscarriage (June 1968). [no. 1].
  • Miscarriage (june 1968). [no. 2].
  • Naming of children (July 1968).
  • A kind of heritage (February 1969).
  • Neither up nor down : (written at 35 years, for Sibila and Ensor) (March 1971).
  • Conifer: a photograph of Ensor aged 3 (March 1972).
  • The rugs (September 1971).

Witness. 7. [sequence poetry]

Booklet, twelve leaves, comprised of twelve typescript poems, stapled together with a green cover, and handwritten title and number 7 on the inside front cover. Each poem has date on the page. Poems are:

  • Centipede (March 1971).
  • The hand-loom (July 1970).
  • The bush-fiddle (December 1960).
  • Joy of the eye (March 1970).
  • Witnesses (1963-February 1969).
  • Horses to the sea : (a Romantic motif) (February 1970).
  • The brown horseman : of the Arrezzo [sic] frescoes of Piero della Francesca (July 1962), with handwritten correction from Arrezzo to Arezzo.
  • A drawing by Diego Rivera (March 1965).
    *A painting of fruit, and Fabio away (undated).
  • After a poetry seminar (June 1971).
  • Yarding penultimates (May 1971).
  • Perseus (November 1970).

Walls into wind. 2. [sequence poetry]

Booklet, nine leaves, comprised of nine typescript poems, stapled together with a blue cover, and handwritten title and number 2 on inside of front cover. Each poem has date at the bottom of the page. Poems are: Looking at (June 1968); Free-wheeling (June 1969); Everylasting mornings (October 1969); This day of wind (January 1970); Weather from a library window (March 1971); Happy time (March 1971); Wind-sparks (April 1971); Mutable air (May 1971); and Window on a landscape (November 1970). The last poem has handwritten emendations.

Asperities. Spites, sports, satire ... 3. [sequence poetry]

Booklet, seventeen leaves, comprised of sixteen typescript poems, stapled together with a purple cover, and handwritten title and number 3 on inside of front cover. Each poem has date at the bottom of the page. Poems are:

  • Word of the explorers (April 1970); handwriten note at top in brackets: To Em. Prof. F.W.R.
  • On some university lecturers (February 1959).
  • Conceit upon pens (November 1966).
  • Inscriptions, Granite Belt (May 1959).
  • Holiday Haiku (August 1963).
  • Open-air cinema (March 1970).
  • Bigfoot territory (February 1969); 2 leaves; at top of poem "On the trail of a gaint," by Albert S. Hunter, Herald, Sat. 22. ii.69.
  • Frontier incident (February 1962).
  • Armistice Day, 1966 (November 1966); title has '1966' crossed through.
  • June 1970 (undated).
  • Evening in Society, Port of Spain (March 1969).
  • Brown Ellen (January 1970).
  • Women's ward (October 1967).
  • These many deaths (April - August 1970); handwritten note at top of page: Coffee with Jill (Farrar) Morris.
  • Talking of people (April 1970); handwritten note at top of page in brackets: to D.M.
  • Caution for an English February (February 1962).

Grapefruit after lights out. 1. [sequence poetry]

Booklet, nine leaves, comprised of nine typescript poems, stapled together with a yellow cover, and handwritten title and number 1 on inside of front cover. Each poem has date at the bottom of the page. Poems are: Quest (August 1959); Word my oracle (November 1960); Encounter (February 1961); The windy cock (January 1961); Listening and living (January 1962); Tree-climbing in summer (May 1962); Pine-grove : (words for a design) (1962); Grapefruit at lights out : (words for a design) (June 1968); and Jingle for a serene full moon on a warm night (February 1969). The last poem has a handwritten corrrection dated 2014.

Selection of poems

Booklet stapled together with lightweight card cover with forty poems. Sticky taped to inside cover is a typewritten letter from Judith Rodriguez to her mother which says, in part: "It is a selection of poems made with you in mind..." Poems, with dates: To my mother, who loves and disagrees; Watching the wake; On journeying apart; The unforgiving clock; The poenix; Lullaby; The Cats; On the farewell gift of a jade ring; Landfall - the second city; The lovers; Indifference; Apology to the spectator; At Luciano's, Port of Spain; Betrayal; Looking at; Free-wheeling; For Hazim Abdullah (d. June 1963); Lesson in mime; Miscarriage; Names for children; Frontier incident; Evening in Society, Port of Spain; Armistic Day, 1966; The Pre-Cook; Party; Bigfoot territory; Caution for an English February; Quest; Word my oracle; The windy cock; Encounter; Listening and living; Tree-climbing in summer; Pine-grove; The bush-fiddle; Pages from a sketch-book, 1959: for Kate Manifold; Witnesses; A drawing of Diego Rivera; Grapefruit at lights out : (words for a design); and A painting of fruit, and Fabio away.

My grandmother. 4. [sequence poetry]

Booklet, three leaves, comprised of three typescript poems, stapled together with a lightweight grey card cover, and handwritten title and number 4 on the front cover. Each poem has date at the bottom of the page. Poems are:

  • My grandmother retraces evolutionary paths (February 1969).
  • Her village (March 1969).
  • She speaks (February 1969), with one handwritten emendation.