Self Book 3, circa 1971-1974

Inscribed on the inside cover is the following note: "Started 19.IV.71 / Practice Book." This self book contains mostly notes for stories and poems, as well as several journal entries, sketches, newspaper clippings, typescripts and letters. Items of note include a handwritten poem by Coffey, "Call the Darkness Home"; three typescript poems of James Hogan, "Family Scene," "Courtship," and "The Return"; and a newspaper clipping from The Evening Herald , November 25, 1972, about an upcoming reading of poetry of the most influential Irish poets of the 1930s, including Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey, and Nial Montgomery