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Poetry.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Further papers of and relating to Gael Turnbull.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13311
Scope and Contents

This small collection includes correspondence, drafts of late poems and typescript of `Winged Afar`, an unpublished work. The correspondence includes letters, 1979-2005, of August Kleinzahler.

Dates: Circa 1977-2005.

Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12476
Scope and Contents

Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".

Dates: 1993-2004.

Letters of various North American poets to Gael Turnbull.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13430
Scope and Contents

Letters of various North American poets to Gael Turnbull. Correspondents include Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Lorine Niedecker and Jonathan Williams. With commonplace book, 1950s, of Gael Turnbull.

Dates: ca. 1953-1985.

Literary papers of Gael Turnbull.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12552

Papers of Gael Turnbull.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10256
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry and prose, together with scripts of dramatizations for radio.

Dates: 1953-1990.