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Belfast Creative Writing Group 1963-6

Collection of typescripts in a folder marked “Complete file: Belfast Creative Writing Group 1963-6”. A note on the folder states “Gift of Mr. Hobsbaum, creator of C.W.G.).

Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005) was a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Queen’s University Belfast from 1962 to 1966. During that period he established the Belfast Creative Writing Group, or “The Group”. Members included James Simmons, Stewart Parker, Bernard McClaverty, Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney. The folder contains 67 discrete items, all but one are typescripts by single authors.

Bond, John [Untitled short story ?]
Typescript 2pp.
Undated
Croskery, Lynette M. [3 Short stories]
The dress
The telegram
The daisy chain

Typescript, 3pp.
Dated 22/03/1966
Heaney, Seamus [7 poems]
Boy driving his father to confession
To a wine jar
On Hogarth’s engraving “Pit ticket for the royal sport”
Synge on Aran
Blackberry-picking
Saint Francis and the birds
At a potato digging
Typescripts, 3pp.
Undated
Hobsbaum, Philip Study in a minor key
Poem
Typescript, 6pp.
Undated