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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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

'The hanging of Minnie Thwaites (writing for project with Robyn Archer, 1983)'

Original folder (retained) has handwritten on cover 'The hanging of Minnie Thwaites (writing for project with Robyn Archer, 1983) (The file includes the first rough draft by Judith Rodriguez and Robyn Archer of The Hanging of Minnie Thwaites, July 1983 (Not used in writing book)'. Includes: handwritten and typescript notes.

Rodriguez, Judith, 1936-2018

The hanging of Minnie Thwaites

The file includes the first rough draft by Judith Rodriguez and Robyn Archer of The Hanging of Minnie Thwaites, July 1983, 42 leaves, photocopied typescript; and handwritten notes relating to the story, 15 sheets of paper, some written on both sides.

Rodriguez, Judith, 1936-2018

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