The wombat eats roots and leaves
- F1778
- Item
- 1979
Successive stages of poem written between 15-22 October 1979.
Manifold, J. S. (John Streeter), 1915-1985
The wombat eats roots and leaves
Successive stages of poem written between 15-22 October 1979.
Manifold, J. S. (John Streeter), 1915-1985
[Eleven poems] / compiled by Wendy Allen.
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