Poems and drafts of poems written and annotated by Julia McCarthy and later included in her book Return from Erebus. Includes poems: “Something resembling light,” “That mythic pushing,” “Psalms” (later titled “Psalm”), “Hibernacula,” “Blind spot,” “False spring,” “Noctuary,” “Twelve red caskets,” “Flying underground,” “Ten meditations on ephemera,” “Return from Erebus,” “Erasing the narratives,” “Poem in white,” “Poem in grey,” “A brief history of blue” (later titled “Out of the blue”), “Poem in black,” and “In the room of quartz.”
Also contains poems “Bifocal,” “Book of clouds,” “Midnight meals,” “Yellow” also titled “Poem in yellow,” “Poem in blue,” “Banishing blue,” “On the death of a poet’s cat” also titled “This dream the night before,” and “Zero at the bone.”
Includes photocopies of newspaper clippings about McCarthy.