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[[Poets in Prison]] is Delia's name for her work for a series ''Poetry from Prison'' in which poems written by people in prison, many awaiting the death sentence, are set to music.
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[[Poets in Prison]] is Delia's name for ''Poetry from Prison'' in which poems written by people in prison, many awaiting the death sentence, are set to music.
  
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It was produced by [[Edward Lucie-Smith|Edward "Ted" Lucie-Smith]] who also translated some of the poems,<ref>[[DD104100]]: "War" translated by Edward Lucie-Smith.</ref> and paid for by "[[Hedley]]"<ref>[[DD104112]]</ref> and performed in summer 1970 at the City of London Festival.<ref>Kirstin Cubitt's article [http://delia-derbyshire.net/Dial%20a%20tune/ Dial a Tune]</ref>
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It was produced by [[Edward Lucie-Smith|Edward "Ted" Lucie-Smith]] who also translated some of the poems,<ref>[[DD104100]]: "War" translated by Edward Lucie-Smith.</ref> and performed at the 1970 [[City of London Festival]]<ref>Kirstin Cubitt's article [http://delia-derbyshire.net/Dial%20a%20tune/ Dial a Tune]</ref> in June-July.<ref>The City of London Festival takes place over two to three weeks in June and July.</ref>
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ELS sent Delia a series of suitable poem texts on 30th January 1970, and paid her for her work on 21st July 1970.
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Delia's papers contain musical note sequences for
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* [[Poets in Prison - Intro|Intro]]
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* [[#Anne Boleyn|Anne Boleyn]]
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* [[#Chidiock Tichborne: Elegy For Himself|Elegy For Himself]] by Chidiock Tichborne
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* [[#Lullaby of the Onion|Lullaby of the Onion]] by Miguel Hernández
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* [[#Mary Queen of Scots|Mary Queen of Scots]]
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* [[#War|War]] by Miguel Hernández
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as well as some scores not yet associated with their poems.
  
 
=Papers=
 
=Papers=
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The whole folder of these papers can be viewed http://delia-derbsyhire.net/papers/thumb.html#PoetsInPrison here].
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The following subsections group her papers according to the poems they relate to:
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* [[DD101757a]] Poem text for Chidiock Tichborne's ''Elegy For Himself''
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* [[DD101757b]] Poem text for Nazim Hikmet's ''That's How It Goes''
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==[[Anne Boleyn]]==
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* [[DD101814]] Poem text for Anne Boleyn
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"O death! rock me on sleep, / Bring me on quiet rest;" ...
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* [[DD101837]] "part sung / part spoken"  
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<gallery>
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* [[DD101850]] Poem text for Anne Boleyn /2
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Image:DD101814.jpg|[[DD101814]] "Poetry from Prison /74": Poem text for Anne Boleyn
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* [[DD101901]] "Poetry from Prison /73": "The onion is frozen / stubborn and poor..."
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Image:DD101850.jpg|[[DD101850]] Poem text "Anne Boleyn /2"
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* [[DD101814]] "Poetry from Prison /74": "The laughter in your eyes / is the light of the world..."
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Image:DD101837.jpg|[[DD101837]] Slip of paper with "part sung / part spoken" handwritten on it
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Image:DD103136.jpg|[[DD103136]] Notes for "ANNE BOLEYN" / words - tune -- written - harmony" "Use hummed second lower line + git. asints. & before?"
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Image:DD103149.jpg|[[DD103149]] Note sequences "G C D Eb" "O rock sleep ..."
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Image:DD103208.jpg|[[DD103208]] Note sequences "G C D Eb" "Yet on sleep for qui-et..."
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</gallery>
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==[[Earl Rivers]]==
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"Somewhat musing / And more mourning..."
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<gallery>
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Image:DD103102.jpg|[[DD103102]] "EARL RIVERS"
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Image:DD103115.jpg|[[DD103115]] "Anthony Widville, Earl Rivers"
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Image:DD103125.jpg|[[DD103125]] "Earl Rivers /2"
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</gallery>
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==[[Edward II]]==
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"On my devoted head / Her bitterest showers..."
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<gallery>
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Image:DD101938.jpg|[[DD101938]] Poem text, translated by Edward Lucie-Smith
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Image:DD102731.jpg|[[DD102731]] Notes: "EDWARD II"
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</gallery>
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==Chidiock Tichborne: [[Elegy For Himself]]==
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"My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; / My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;" ...
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<gallery>
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Image:DD101757a.jpg|[[DD101757a]] Poem text
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Image:DD103252.jpg|[[DD103252]] Notes "TICHBOURNE: Guitar coming in early under comm.t"
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Image:DD103312.jpg|[[DD103312]] Note sequences "Bb Ab Gb F" "S.F. router but first..."(?)
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Image:DD103342.jpg|[[DD103342]] Note sequences "Bb  G F  G Bb C" "The day is past & yet saw no sun..."
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Image:DD103405.jpg|[[DD103405]] Note sequences "Bb F ... D C" "My per I but for of" (?)
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Image:DD103418.jpg|[[DD103418]] Note sequences "Tichborne" "C A G ... A C"
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</gallery>
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== Elizabeth I: [[Written On A Wall At Woodstock]] ==
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"Oh, fortune, thy wresting wavering state / Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit..."
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<gallery>
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Image:DD103240.jpg|[[DD103240]]
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</gallery>
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==Francis==
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<gallery>
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Image:DD103043.jpg|[[DD103043]] Notes
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</gallery>
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==[[House of the Man Athirst]]==
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by Miguel Hernandez, translated by Edward Lucie-Smith.<BR>
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"I am desert sand, / dearth of thirst..."
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<gallery>
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Image:DD102000.jpg|[[DD102000]] Poem text
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</gallery>
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==[[James I of Scotland]]==
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"When I lay in bed alone waking, / New partit out of sleep a little tofore,..."
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<gallery>
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Image:DD102801.jpg|[[DD102801]] Poem text
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</gallery>
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==[[Lullaby of the Onion]]==
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by Miguel Hernández<ref>[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lullaby-onion ''Lullaby of the Onion''] on poets.org</ref>
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<P>
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Delia's notes suggest that her music for this consists of two tunes: Tune&nbsp;I and Tune&nbsp;II.
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<gallery>
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Image:DD101901.jpg|[[DD101901]] "Poetry from Prison /73": Typewritten lyrics: "The onion is frozen / stubborn and poor..."
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Image:DD102841.jpg|[[DD102841]] Notes "LULLABY OF THE ONION"
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Image:DD102821a.jpg|[[DD102821a]] Letter dated 27th Feb. from [[Edward Lucie-Smith]] to Delia.
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Image:DD102821b.jpg|[[DD102821b]] Delia's notes: "See bit (or 6i+)" "E E G E (G) D C E (AG) A C A ... A G F A A" "hun-ger my child sleeps.."
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Image:DD102857.jpg|[[DD102857]] Note sequence: E|G E-E D|E - E - ..."
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Image:DD102935.jpg|[[DD102935]] Notes: "TUNE&nbsp;I "Lullaby" V.2" "In the cra-dle of hun-ger..."
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Image:DD102945.jpg|[[DD102945]] Notes "T.I&nbsp;? V4" "Bird in laugh out a-laysth in you[?]"
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Image:DD103007.jpg|[[DD103007]] Notes "TI V11" "tomorrow they will be..."
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Image:DD103030.jpg|[[DD103030]] Notes: "T&nbsp;II" "Mixture of laughing and flying - higher register"
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</gallery>
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==[[Mary Queen of Scots]]==
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Delia's papers contain the texts for two of Mary QoS's poems:
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* "Alas! what am I! and in what estate?..."
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* "O Domine Deus! Speravi in Te..."
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and note sequences for the second of these. For details, see [[Mary Queen of Scots]].
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<gallery>
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Image:DD103441.jpg|[[DD103441]] Text of Poem I: "Alas! what am I! and in what estate?..."
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Image:DD103529.jpg|[[DD103529]] Text of poem II: "O Domine Deus! Speravi in Te, / O care mi Iesu! nunc libera me..."
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Image:DD103457.jpg|[[DD103457]] Notes "MARY Q. OF SCOTS"
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Image:DD103516.jpg|[[DD103516]] Note sequences for poem II: "(G D) A G / G E D / G A G" "Ca Je su lib ra in te met OR can Je nunc va bet"[?]
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</gallery>
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==[[Richard Coeur de Lion]]==
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<gallery>
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Image:DD102650.jpg|[[DD102650]] Notes: "RICHARD COEUR DE LION"
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Image:DD102714.jpg|[[DD102714]] Poem text: "If captive wight attempt the tuneful strain..."
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Image:DD102723.jpg|[[DD102723]] Poem text: "Richard Coeur de Lion /2"
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</gallery>
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==Sir Thomas Seymour==
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"Forgetting God to love a king / Hath been my rod, or else nothing..."
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<gallery>
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Image:DD103230.jpg|[[DD103230]] Poem text
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</gallery>
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==Tartars==
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<gallery>
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Image:DD102638.jpg|[[DD102638]] Notes: "TARTARS"
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</gallery>
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==Nazim Hikmet: [[That's How It Goes]]==
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"Am in the middle of a spreading light, / my hands inspired, the world beautiful." ...
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<gallery>
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Image:DD101757b.jpg|[[DD101757b]] Poem text
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</gallery>
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==[[War]]==
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"Old age in the villages, / heart without a master"
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<gallery>
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Image:DD104100.jpg|[[DD104100]] Poem text "WAR"
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Image:DD103607.jpg|[[DD103607]] Notes: "WAR" "DD Tape acc.t"
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Image:DD103642.jpg|[[DD103642]] Notes: "WAR I" "chords are bass 8ths +8ves..."
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Image:DD103625.jpg|[[DD103625]] Notes: "WAR II" "Same notes for each verse"
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Image:DD104341.jpg|[[DD104341]] Manuscript "Old age in the villages, Heart without a master..."
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</gallery>
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==Waters of Babylon==
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* [[DD102523]] Notes: "WATERS OF BABYLON"
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==Unidentified scores==
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These papers have note or chord sequences or conventional score but we don't know which poems they're for:
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* [[DD102650]] Note sequences: "Eb C D B Eb C D B / On rot ten shore All fight storm tune pours[?]..."
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* [[DD103733]] Note sequences: "C G A A F G" "Ev. time ch tae in th..."(?)
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* [[DD103841]] Manuscript "Intro"
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* [[DD103908]] Manuscript "Intro: The sky above the roof top is blue..."
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* [[DD104304]] VCS3 dope sheet "POETRY FROM PRISONS" effects "FISHES 1" "FISHES 2" "WHALES"
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=Other papers=
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The whole folder of these papers can be viewed [http://delia-derbsyhire.net/papers/thumb.html#PoetsInPrison here].
 
* [[DD101920]] "Poetry from Prison /75"
 
* [[DD101920]] "Poetry from Prison /75"
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* [[DD101929]] "Poetry from Prison /76" 
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* [[DD101929]] "Poetry from Prison /76"  
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* [[DD101814]] Poem text for "Edward II"
 
 
* [[DD101950]] Letter from Ted to Delia dated 30th January "Herewith a batch of photostats to brood on"
 
* [[DD101950]] Letter from Ted to Delia dated 30th January "Herewith a batch of photostats to brood on"
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* [[DD102100]] "HOUSE OF THE MAN ATHIRST" "I am desert sand, /dearth of thirst..." "Miguel Herdandez / trans. E. Lucie-Smith"
 
 
* [[DD102148]] Letter dated 21st July 1970 to Delia "herewith cheque for Poetry from Prison..."
 
* [[DD102148]] Letter dated 21st July 1970 to Delia "herewith cheque for Poetry from Prison..."
 
* [[DD102201]] Notes: "Library make-up tape / 1.Superflumen / 2.monks / 3.low vroom..."
 
* [[DD102201]] Notes: "Library make-up tape / 1.Superflumen / 2.monks / 3.low vroom..."
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* [[DD102435]] Notes: "Tape treatment"
 
* [[DD102435]] Notes: "Tape treatment"
 
* [[DD102454]] Notes: "Timetable - Lute Chittaronte(?)"
 
* [[DD102454]] Notes: "Timetable - Lute Chittaronte(?)"
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* [[DD102523]] Notes: "WATERS OF BABYLON"
 
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* [[DD102638]] Notes: "TARTARS"
 
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* [[DD102650]] Notes: "RICHARD COEUR DE LION"
 
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* [[DD102714]] Poem text: "Richard Coeur de Lion"
 
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* [[DD102723]] Poem text: "Richard Coeur de Lion /2"
 
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* [[DD102731]] Notes: "EDWARD II"
 
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* [[DD102650]] Note sequences: "Eb C D B Eb C D B / On rot ten shore All fight storm tune pours(?)..."
 
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* [[DD102801]] "James I of Scotland": "When as I lay in bed alone waking..."
 
 
* [[DD102821]] Letter dated 27 Feb. to Delia "How are things going?"
 
* [[DD102821]] Letter dated 27 Feb. to Delia "How are things going?"
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* [[DD102841]] Notes for "LULLABY OF THE ONION"
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* [[DD103720]] Notes: "Sung & played: Richard Coeur de Lion, Edward II, Francis, Titchbourne. Played (acc.t): Ann Boleyn" + list of pieces: "Anne Boleyn: only accompaniment"
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* [[DD102857]] Note sequence: E|G E-E D|E - E - ..."
 
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* [[DD102935]] Notes: "TUNE I "Lullaby" V.2" "In the cra-dle of hun-ger..."
 
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* [[DD102945]] Notes "T.I ? V4" "Bird in laugh out a-laysth in you(?)"
 
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* [[DD103007]] Notes "TI V11" "tomorrow they will be..."
 
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* [[DD103030]] Notes: "T II" "Mixture of laughing and flying - higher register"
 
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* [[DD103043]] Notes for "FRANCIS"
 
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* [[DD103102]] Notes for "EARL RIVERS" (blank)
 
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* [[DD103115]] Poem text "Anthony Widville, Earl Rivers": "Somewhat musing / And more mourning..."
 
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* [[DD103125]] Poem text "Earl Rivers /2"
 
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* [[DD103136]] Notes for "ANNE BOLEYN" / words - tune -- written - harmony" "Use hummed second lower line + git. asints. & before?"
 
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* [[DD103149]] Note sequences "G C D Eb" "O rock sleep ..."
 
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* [[DD103208]] Note sequences "G C D Eb" "Yet on sleep for gri-et(?)..."
 
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* [[DD103230]] Poem text: "Sir Thomas Seymour" "Forgetting God to love a king / Hath been my rod, or else nothing..."
 
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* [[DD103240]] Poem text "Elizabeth I" "Oh, fortune, thy wresting wavering state / Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit..."
 
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* [[DD103252]] Notes "TICHBOURNE" (blank)
 
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* [[DD103312]] Note sequences "Bb Ab Gb F" "S.F. router but first..."(?)
 
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* [[DD103342]] Note sequences "Bb  G F  G Bb C" "The day is past & you saw no sun..."
 
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* [[DD103405]] Note sequences "Bb F ... D C" "My per I but for of" (?)
 
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* [[DD103418]] Note sequences for "Tichborne": "C A G ... A C
 
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* [[DD103441]] Poem text for "Mary Queen of Scots" "Alas! what am I! and in what estate?" (****)
 
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* [[DD103457]] Notes "MARY Q. OF SCOTS"
 
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* [[DD103516]] Note sequences: "(G D) A G / G E D / G A G" "Ca Je su lib ra in te met OR can Je news va bet"(?)
 
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* [[DD103529]] Poem text "Mary, Queen of Scots" "O Domine Deus! Speravi in Te, / O care mi Iesu! nunc libera me..."
 
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* [[DD103607]] Notes: "WAR" "DD Tape acc.t"
 
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* [[DD103625]] Notes: "WAR II" "Same notes for each verse"
 
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* [[DD103642]] Notes: "WAR I" "chords are bass 8ths +8ves..."
 
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* [[DD103720]] Notes: "sung & played" + list of pieces
 
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* [[DD103733]] Note sequences: "C G A A F G" "Ev. time ch tae in th..."(?)
 
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* [[DD103841]] Manuscript "Intro"
 
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* [[DD103908]] Manuscript "Intro: The sky above the roof top is blue..."
 
 
* [[DD103921]] Notes: "Do: Treat Hedley" Quomodo..." / "I caught myself in my instrumental strings"
 
* [[DD103921]] Notes: "Do: Treat Hedley" Quomodo..." / "I caught myself in my instrumental strings"
 
* [[DD103934]] Letter dated Friday 26th June to Delia "Herewith a full script of the programme..."
 
* [[DD103934]] Letter dated Friday 26th June to Delia "Herewith a full script of the programme..."
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* [[DD104036]] Table headed "T1 - T2" "1a Wind for Superflumen"
 
* [[DD104036]] Table headed "T1 - T2" "1a Wind for Superflumen"
 
* [[DD104046]] "Id[?] keep still / wind etc down to final level" "Start 237"
 
* [[DD104046]] "Id[?] keep still / wind etc down to final level" "Start 237"
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* [[DD104100]] Poem text "WAR" "Old age in the villages, / heart without a master..."
 
 
* [[DD104112]] Letter dated 24th July 1970 from Hedley to Delia: "Thank you for your recent letter - I have enclosed your cheque"
 
* [[DD104112]] Letter dated 24th July 1970 from Hedley to Delia: "Thank you for your recent letter - I have enclosed your cheque"
 
* [[DD104153]] Handwritten poem text: "Even such is time which takes in trust / Our youth, and joys and all we have..."
 
* [[DD104153]] Handwritten poem text: "Even such is time which takes in trust / Our youth, and joys and all we have..."
 
* [[DD104226]] "Fx M/U": Table headed "POEM - TAPE1 - TAPE 2 - TAPE 3 - NOTES"
 
* [[DD104226]] "Fx M/U": Table headed "POEM - TAPE1 - TAPE 2 - TAPE 3 - NOTES"
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* [[DD104304]] VCS3 dope sheet "POETRY FROM PRISONS" effects "FISHES 1" "FISHES 2" "WHALES"
 
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* [[DD104341]] Manuscript "Old age in the villages, Heart without a master..."
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 15:55, 5 July 2021

Poets in Prison is Delia's name for Poetry from Prison in which poems written by people in prison, many awaiting the death sentence, are set to music.

It was produced by Edward "Ted" Lucie-Smith who also translated some of the poems,[1] and performed at the 1970 City of London Festival[2] in June-July.[3]

ELS sent Delia a series of suitable poem texts on 30th January 1970, and paid her for her work on 21st July 1970.

Delia's papers contain musical note sequences for

as well as some scores not yet associated with their poems.

Papers

The following subsections group her papers according to the poems they relate to:

Anne Boleyn

"O death! rock me on sleep, / Bring me on quiet rest;" ...

  • DD101814 "Poetry from Prison /74": Poem text for Anne Boleyn

  • DD101850 Poem text "Anne Boleyn /2"

  • DD101837 Slip of paper with "part sung / part spoken" handwritten on it

  • DD103136 Notes for "ANNE BOLEYN" / words - tune -- written - harmony" "Use hummed second lower line + git. asints. & before?"

  • DD103149 Note sequences "G C D Eb" "O rock sleep ..."

  • DD103208 Note sequences "G C D Eb" "Yet on sleep for qui-et..."

Earl Rivers

"Somewhat musing / And more mourning..."

Edward II

"On my devoted head / Her bitterest showers..."

  • DD101938 Poem text, translated by Edward Lucie-Smith

  • DD102731 Notes: "EDWARD II"

Chidiock Tichborne: Elegy For Himself

"My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; / My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;" ...

  • DD101757a Poem text

  • DD103252 Notes "TICHBOURNE: Guitar coming in early under comm.t"

  • DD103312 Note sequences "Bb Ab Gb F" "S.F. router but first..."(?)

  • DD103342 Note sequences "Bb G F G Bb C" "The day is past & yet saw no sun..."

  • DD103405 Note sequences "Bb F ... D C" "My per I but for of" (?)

  • DD103418 Note sequences "Tichborne" "C A G ... A C"

Elizabeth I: Written On A Wall At Woodstock

"Oh, fortune, thy wresting wavering state / Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit..."

Francis

House of the Man Athirst

by Miguel Hernandez, translated by Edward Lucie-Smith.
"I am desert sand, / dearth of thirst..."

James I of Scotland

"When I lay in bed alone waking, / New partit out of sleep a little tofore,..."

Lullaby of the Onion

by Miguel Hernández[4]

Delia's notes suggest that her music for this consists of two tunes: Tune I and Tune II.

  • DD101901 "Poetry from Prison /73": Typewritten lyrics: "The onion is frozen / stubborn and poor..."

  • DD102841 Notes "LULLABY OF THE ONION"

  • DD102821a Letter dated 27th Feb. from Edward Lucie-Smith to Delia.

  • DD102821b Delia's notes: "See bit (or 6i+)" "E E G E (G) D C E (AG) A C A ... A G F A A" "hun-ger my child sleeps.."

  • E - E - ..."

  • DD102935 Notes: "TUNE I "Lullaby" V.2" "In the cra-dle of hun-ger..."

  • DD102945 Notes "T.I ? V4" "Bird in laugh out a-laysth in you[?]"

  • DD103007 Notes "TI V11" "tomorrow they will be..."

  • DD103030 Notes: "T II" "Mixture of laughing and flying - higher register"

Mary Queen of Scots

Delia's papers contain the texts for two of Mary QoS's poems:

  • "Alas! what am I! and in what estate?..."
  • "O Domine Deus! Speravi in Te..."

and note sequences for the second of these. For details, see Mary Queen of Scots.

  • DD103441 Text of Poem I: "Alas! what am I! and in what estate?..."

  • DD103529 Text of poem II: "O Domine Deus! Speravi in Te, / O care mi Iesu! nunc libera me..."

  • DD103457 Notes "MARY Q. OF SCOTS"

  • DD103516 Note sequences for poem II: "(G D) A G / G E D / G A G" "Ca Je su lib ra in te met OR can Je nunc va bet"[?]

Richard Coeur de Lion

  • DD102650 Notes: "RICHARD COEUR DE LION"

  • DD102714 Poem text: "If captive wight attempt the tuneful strain..."

  • DD102723 Poem text: "Richard Coeur de Lion /2"

Sir Thomas Seymour

"Forgetting God to love a king / Hath been my rod, or else nothing..."

Tartars

Nazim Hikmet: That's How It Goes

"Am in the middle of a spreading light, / my hands inspired, the world beautiful." ...

War

"Old age in the villages, / heart without a master"

  • DD104100 Poem text "WAR"

  • DD103607 Notes: "WAR" "DD Tape acc.t"

  • DD103642 Notes: "WAR I" "chords are bass 8ths +8ves..."

  • DD103625 Notes: "WAR II" "Same notes for each verse"

  • DD104341 Manuscript "Old age in the villages, Heart without a master..."

Waters of Babylon

Unidentified scores

These papers have note or chord sequences or conventional score but we don't know which poems they're for:

  • DD102650 Note sequences: "Eb C D B Eb C D B / On rot ten shore All fight storm tune pours[?]..."
  • DD103733 Note sequences: "C G A A F G" "Ev. time ch tae in th..."(?)
  • DD103841 Manuscript "Intro"
  • DD103908 Manuscript "Intro: The sky above the roof top is blue..."
  • DD104304 VCS3 dope sheet "POETRY FROM PRISONS" effects "FISHES 1" "FISHES 2" "WHALES"

Other papers

The whole folder of these papers can be viewed here.

  • DD101920 "Poetry from Prison /75"
  • DD101929 "Poetry from Prison /76"
  • DD101950 Letter from Ted to Delia dated 30th January "Herewith a batch of photostats to brood on"
  • DD102148 Letter dated 21st July 1970 to Delia "herewith cheque for Poetry from Prison..."
  • DD102201 Notes: "Library make-up tape / 1.Superflumen / 2.monks / 3.low vroom..."
  • DD102357 General notes
  • DD102422 Notes: "Timetable - ASK ELS - SOUND F/X"
  • DD102435 Notes: "Tape treatment"
  • DD102454 Notes: "Timetable - Lute Chittaronte(?)"
  • DD102821 Letter dated 27 Feb. to Delia "How are things going?"
  • DD103720 Notes: "Sung & played: Richard Coeur de Lion, Edward II, Francis, Titchbourne. Played (acc.t): Ann Boleyn" + list of pieces: "Anne Boleyn: only accompaniment"
  • DD103921 Notes: "Do: Treat Hedley" Quomodo..." / "I caught myself in my instrumental strings"
  • DD103934 Letter dated Friday 26th June to Delia "Herewith a full script of the programme..."
  • DD103951 Notes: "VCS3 for high phrases" "Fish p.47" etc.
  • DD104011 Table headed "Poem - Tape 1 - Tape 2"
  • DD104036 Table headed "T1 - T2" "1a Wind for Superflumen"
  • DD104046 "Id[?] keep still / wind etc down to final level" "Start 237"
  • DD104112 Letter dated 24th July 1970 from Hedley to Delia: "Thank you for your recent letter - I have enclosed your cheque"
  • DD104153 Handwritten poem text: "Even such is time which takes in trust / Our youth, and joys and all we have..."
  • DD104226 "Fx M/U": Table headed "POEM - TAPE1 - TAPE 2 - TAPE 3 - NOTES"

Availability

References

  1. ↑ DD104100: "War" translated by Edward Lucie-Smith.
  2. ↑ Kirstin Cubitt's article Dial a Tune
  3. ↑ The City of London Festival takes place over two to three weeks in June and July.
  4. ↑ Lullaby of the Onion on poets.org
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