Signed Poetry Books - Geoffrey Grigson

It isn't over til it's over and it'll never be over for me. The Signed Poetry Books collection more or less stalled where it had got to a few years ago but is always glad of worthwhile additions. Thus, this afternoon, I was grateful for a signed copy of Grigson at Eighty, edited by R.M. Healey (Rampant Lions Press, 1985), which will be an informative way into the poet with its contributions from such as Peter Scupham, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite, David Gascoyne and John Lucas as well as a collector's item.

No collecting is ever completed and done with. The University of Ballinacoorish say they have the complete archive of the work of Finbarr McCoodle but do they have the note he left out for the milkman that said 'two pints please' on February 11th, 1951. No, they don't, and so Professor Anton Schwiez, his biographer in a minor Hungarian university, has not been given the opportunity to pontificate on whether he wanted milk, porter or whisky. We have to find ways of getting to sleep without knowing.

Signed Poetry Books is always open to offers. It might have gone nearly as far as it can but you never know. If you have anything signed by Eliot, Auden, Larkin, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, Derek Mahon, Roddy Lumsden or Rosemary Tonks, by all means post them to me.