Carpenter, Maurice - Four Typewritten Poems (SIGNED COPIES) with annotations by the poet's hand, plus an accompanying signed letter

Manuscript N/A, N/A, 1969. N/A, N/A. Good Condition/N/A. 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. This item is very light, and may be shipped for less than the standard book cost quoted at this site..

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