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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 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.
  
 
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>
 
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>

Revision as of 15:39, 4 December 2015

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.

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

Papers

  • DD101757a Poem text for Chidiock Tichborne's Elegy For Himself
  • DD101757b Poem text for Nazim Hikmet's That's How It Goes
  • DD101814 Poem text for Anne Boleyn
  • DD101837 "part sung / part spoken"
  • DD101850 Poem text for Anne Boleyn /2
  • DD101901 "Poetry from Prison /73": "The onion is frozen / stubborn and poor..."
  • DD101814 "Poetry from Prison /74": "The laughter in your eyes / is the light of the world..."
  • DD101920 "Poetry from Prison /75"
  • DD101929 "Poetry from Prison /76"
  • DD101814 Poem text for "Edward II"
  • DD101950 Letter from Ted to Delia dated 30th January "Herewith a batch of photostats to brood on"
  • 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..."
  • 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(?)"
  • DD102523 Notes: "WATERS OF BABYLON"
  • DD102638 Notes: "TARTARS"
  • DD102650 Notes: "RICHARD COEUR DE LION"
  • DD102714 Poem text: "Richard Coeur de Lion"
  • DD102723 Poem text: "Richard Coeur de Lion /2"
  • DD102731 Notes: "EDWARD II"
  • DD102650 Note sequences: "Eb C D B Eb C D B / On rot ten shore All fight storm tune pours(?)..."
  • DD102801 "James I of Scotland": "When as I lay in bed alone waking..."
  • DD102821 Letter dated 27 Feb. to Delia "How are things going?"
  • DD102841 Notes for "LULLABY OF THE ONION"
  • DD102857 Note sequence: E|G E-E D|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"
  • DD103043 Notes for "FRANCIS"
  • DD103102 Notes for "EARL RIVERS" (blank)
  • DD103115 Poem text "Anthony Widville, Earl Rivers": "Somewhat musing / And more mourning..."
  • DD103125 Poem text "Earl Rivers /2"
  • 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 gri-et(?)..."
  • DD103230 Poem text: "Sir Thomas Seymour" "Forgetting God to love a king / Hath been my rod, or else nothing..."
  • DD103240 Poem text "Elizabeth I" "Oh, fortune, thy wresting wavering state / Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit..."
  • DD103252 Notes "TICHBOURNE" (blank)
  • 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 & you saw no sun..."
  • DD103405 Note sequences "Bb F ... D C" "My per I but for of" (?)
  • DD103418 Note sequences for "Tichborne": "C A G ... A C
  • DD103441 Poem text for "Mary Queen of Scots" "Alas! what am I! and in what estate?" (****)
  • DD103457 Notes "MARY Q. OF SCOTS"
  • 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"(?)
  • DD103529 Poem text "Mary, Queen of Scots" "O Domine Deus! Speravi in Te, / O care mi Iesu! nunc libera me..."
  • DD103607 Notes: "WAR" "DD Tape acc.t"
  • DD103625 Notes: "WAR II" "Same notes for each verse"
  • DD103642 Notes: "WAR I" "chords are bass 8ths +8ves..."
  • DD103720 Notes: "sung & played" + list of pieces
  • 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..."
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • DD104304 VCS3 dope sheet "POETRY FROM PRISONS" effects "FISHES 1" "FISHES 2" "WHALES"
  • DD104341 Manuscript "Old age in the villages, Heart without a master..."

Availability

References

  1. ↑ DD104100: "War" translated by Edward Lucie-Smith.
  2. ↑ DD104112
  3. ↑ Kirstin Cubitt's article Dial a Tune
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