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Thomas Blackburn Archive
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1893-1988
The items in this collection relate to Thomas Blackburn's personal life, his career as a poet and his teaching career. Comprises: typescripts, autograph manuscripts and other papers relating to Thoma...
Poetry Collections and Published Poems
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1951-1988
This subfonds contains items concerned with Thomas Blackburn's poetry collections and published poems. It includes corrected proof copies of published volumes of poetry collections, typescripts of col...
Notebooks and Other Poems
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
1930-1977
This subfonds contains notebooks, scrapbooks and drafts of poems compiled by Blackburn. Where a poem or item within a notebook relates to another item in the collection, (for example, a draft of the s...
Fiction, Criticism and Other Writing
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1955-1977
This subfonds contains items concerned with Blackburn's writing output aside from poetry. It includes papers relating to his semi-autobiographical novels, autobiographies, critical reviews and plays, ...
Appointments, Teaching and Educational Publications
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
1940-1973
This subfonds contains items concerned with Blackburn's employment and educational work aside from his role as poet and author. After the war, Blackburn became an English Literature teacher and worked...
Correspondence, Family Papers and Photographs
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
1893-1986
This subfonds contains correspondence, family papers and photographs. These include both Blackburn and Fenwick family papers as well as Thomas Blackburn's own collected papers.
The Outer Darkness
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1951
This series comprises a single file containing the following typescripts of poems with annotations, later published in Blackburn's collection 'The Outer Darkness' (1951): - The Beast - Lazarus - T...
The Holy Stone
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1952-1954
This series comprises a single file containing the following typescripts of poems published in Blackburn's collection 'The Holy Stone' (1954): - Aubade - The Child - Exorcism of Ghosts - There
In the Fire
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1954-1956
This series comprises a single file containing typescripts of the following poems, later published in Blackburn's collection 'In The Fire' (1956): - Bacchae - The Clockwork - The Drummer - The Ma...
The Next Word
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1956-1958
This series comprises a single file containing typescripts of the following poems, published in Blackburn's collection 'The Next Word' (1958): - The Citizens - The Lucky Marriage - The Need For Dy...
A Smell of Burning
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
1957-1962
This series contains items relating to Blackburn's collection 'A Smell of Burning' (1961), including poem drafts, a contract and a sound recording.
A Breathing Space
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1964-1966
This series contains items relating to Blackburn's collection 'A Breathing Space' (1964), including poem drafts, copy, contracts, reviews and papers relating to a musical collaboration with Peter Dick...