ILLUSTRATED CARPENTERBiblio.com
Maurice CarpenterBiblio.com
Four Typewritten Poems SIGNED COPIES with annotations by the poet's hand plus an accompanying signed letter
1969ref. 5097N/A N/A 1969. N/A. N/A. Good Condition/N/A. Manuscript Signed by Author. Four typewritten poems from the poet's "Villages" series with annotations by the poet's hand & each signed on the reverse plus an accompanying signed letter. The poems are: "Berwick St John" Wiltshire; "Ebbesbourne Wake!" Wiltshire; Priddy" Somerset; & "Gravestone in Watton" Norfolk. John Miles’ Maurice Carpenter was a working-class left-wing poet who was educated at Birkbeck. Carpenter wrote for the Young Communist League cultural magazine ‘Alive!’ In 1939-40. A friend of Edith Sitwell he worked at Archer’s bookshop in Parton Street and published several published works including the volume of poetry `The Tall Interpreter’ published in the late 1940s a short story called ‘Night Shift – the Machine Stops’ in 1943 and an autobiographical book called ‘A Rebel in the Thirties’. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he provided lectures at the post-war LCC council estate of South Oxhey midway between Harrow and Watford . it was then perceived as a left-wing hot-spot and was known in the local paper as `cockney utopia’ and ‘little Moscow’! The Communist Party and YCL held many meetings there in early 1950s that attracted large numbers. Size: 13" x 8". 5 1 pages. Item Type: Manuscript. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Poetry; Poems; Wiltshire; Norfolk; England; Poetry. Signed by Author. Inventory No: 5097. . N/A unknown
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