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2012.27 - 2012.27 - Collection - 132 boxes
- B - 2012.27/B - Series - 11 items

Ref No	2012.27/B/4
Level	Item
Extent	1 item
Title	Poems
Date	1978 - 1993
Description	Hardback red notebook including notes and poems by Keir Smith. Subject matter includes locale and memory, instructions for making work, 'On becoming Shu' and constellations. Selected first lines include: 'K as collector', 'travel/return, seasons', 'Realm of Taurus', 'the husbandry of animals', 'Ceres', 'sailing fossil seas', 'travelling North', 'the articles of trade', 'Islands offer refuge', 'river history', 'the island', 'towards the Iron Road', 'carvings cut in sleepers', cloud-borne geni, 'like a robber of graves…' and 'dark tower'.
Notes	Information from Clare Rowe: Notes the use of lists as potential poem, i.e. the 'to do list' as a form of process and final work
Related Material	British Library, National Life Stories: Artists Lives tracks 19 - 22, track 21 pg. 243 references not writing '…but they looked like poems'. Also 35mm slide collection and relevant publicity material

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