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Synopsis

Poems in pamphlet 1952. xii jocelyn brooke.

Item Description

First edition, 36 pp., (paginated 351-383) with inserted compliments slip of The Listener, the BBC magazine, marked 'With the Compliments of the Editor, and in Brooke's hand 'And a Happy New Year to you, dear Roy' and initialled 'JB'.

Notes

Jocelyn gave this copy to Roy Fuller, poet and literary figure. The Hand & Flower press was the child of Erica Marks who lived at Aldington and cultivated a literary circle, including young Jocelyn Brooke. The Poets in Pamphlet (this being number 12) were issued as a bound anthology as well as sold separately, hence the strange pagination. The print runs were very small and all their titles are scarce and this, Jocelyn's second published book of poems was not a runaway success.