Box 21

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This folder contains notes, poems, collages, sketches, and small paintings. Among those poems included in this folder are "Liminal," "Image as a Young Lady," "Don't Kick the Dog," "Antiochus Got an Ague," "At Home," and "On the Roof-Tops." All items were originally housed in the same folder, and they have been left in the order in which they were found.

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This folder contains forty-two pages of material, pasted to the leaves from a 1977 Page-a-Day Diary. Items of note include a photocopy of Parkman Howe's review of the Brian Coffey Special Issue of the Irish University Review , newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, sketches, and several typed and handwritten poems.

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This folder contains 16 pp. of scrapbook items, including a signed copy of James Hogan's poem, "To the Poet (After Pushkin)" with the following autograph note: "Dear Brian, thought the above might amuse. Trust your French sojourn went well. Regards to Bridget, James." Also included are photographs of Coffey's grandchildren, a two-page photocopy of "A Prayer for Creative Thinkers," and miscellaneous notes and newspaper clippings

Scope and Contents Most of the material in this folder is related to the publication of Coffey's poetry collection, Chanterelles . Included are several letters from Billy Mills, Colin Pritchard, Margaret McAlpine, Neil Baldwin, Felix Aprahamian and others; two poems by Colin Pritchard, "New Passions" and "The Sum of Human Misery"; a theater program for Samuel Beckett's Comedie and John Paul Sartre's ...

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Contains newspaper clippings, notes, children's paintings and drawings, and sketches

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This folder contains notes for poems and essays (including "Concerning Making"), drawing and sketches, and a photocopy of Gerald Murphy's article for the Journal of Irish Studies , entitled "Notes on Aisling Poetry," 1939

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Inscribed on the cover, "October 81 / Sad Little Mary." The book contains only two pages of sketches