Three books of poetry by Brian Patten : Vanishing trick, The irrelevant song, and, Grave gossip / Brian Patten
dc.contributor | Rahtz, Sebastian ArchaeoInformatica York |
dc.contributor.author | Patten, Brian, 1946- |
dc.coverage.placeName | s.l. |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:49:31Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:49:31Z |
dc.date.created | 1987 |
dc.date.issued | 1987-02-10 |
dc.identifier | ota:1042 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1042 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1042 |
dc.description.abstract | 3 vols Catalogued on RLIN |
dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 112 KB) |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.rights | Oxford Text Archive |
dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
dc.rights.label | ACA |
dc.subject.lcsh | English poetry -- 20th century |
dc.subject.other | Poems |
dc.title | Three books of poetry by Brian Patten : Vanishing trick, The irrelevant song, and, Grave gossip / Brian Patten |
dc.title.alternative | Vanishing trick |
dc.title.alternative | The irrelevant song |
dc.title.alternative | Grave gossip |
dc.title.alternative | Selected poems |
dc.type | Text |
has.files | yes |
branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 119536 |
files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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#Three books of poetry by Brian Patten: Vanishing Trick, The Irrelevant
#Song and Grave Gossip
#
#These poems were typed onto the machine by a combination of students
#doing an "Introduction to Computing" course in 1986 and 1987, and by
#Elaine Vail in the Dept. Electronics and Computer Science, all at the
#University of Southampton. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY CHECKED
#AGAINST THE ORIGINALS (original editions of books by Allen and Unwin.
#Allen and Unwin have NOT given permission for this work; I wrote to
#them but they didnt reply
#
#Markup is COCOA - B for book, P for poem
# one poem never made it, a long one - it is starred in the <P title
#
#Sebastian Rahtz January 6 1987
#Computer Science
#University
#Southampton S09 5NH
#0703 559122 ext 2435
#e-mail spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm
###################################################
<B Vanishing Trick>
<P A Love Poem>
----- whose body has opened
Night after night
Harbouring loneliness,
Cancelling the doubts
Of which I am made,
N . . .