Hull History Centre: Papers of Tony F. Griffin U DTFG Papers of Tony F. Griffin c.1940s-2016 Accession number: 2017/11 Biographical Background: Tony F. Griffin was born on 11 October 1949 in Richmond, Surrey. He lived predominantly in Hull and Leeds. He opened and ran a book shop in Leeds, Griffin's Books, where he also established a series of poetry readings and was later involved in Flux Gallery Press. He first gained attention as a poet after his work was included in the anthology A Rumoured City: New Poets from Hull (1982), which also contained work by Douglas Dunn and Peter Didsbury amongst others. Around this time, he also contributed poems to various national periodicals on the advice of Philip Larkin. His first major collection of poetry, Cider Days, was published in 1990, followed by his second major book, Kavita, in 2003. In 2010, his work was included in the sequel to Douglas Dunn's 1982 anthology, Old City, New Rumours: A Hull Anthology, and in the same year, a festschrift titled Born Into An Unquiet was published to mark Griffin's 60th birthday. In 2013, Tricycle Songs was published by Flux Gallery Press and in the following year, a collection of previously unpublished poems was printed under the title Moving from the South. At the time of his death on 27 April 2016, he was working with Jules Smith on a project about the Hull Poets called Librarians and Barbarians. Custodial history: Donated Jun 2017 Description: This collection includes poetry files, poetry notebooks, poetry publications, correspondence files, items relating to the shop ‘Griffin’s Books’, and personal papers relating to Tony F. Griffin. The poetry files contain typed and handwritten poems by T.F. Griffin, and related publicity material. The notebooks contain handwritten draft poems by T.F. Griffin and the publications include poetry books by T.F. Griffin, books edited by T.F. Griffin and poetry magazines featuring poetry by T.F. Griffin. The correspondence files contain letters, postcards and greetings cards sent to T.F. Griffin from various correspondents relating to personal news, news of friends and family, T.F. Griffin’s poetry, Flux Gallery Press and poetry in general. Items relating to ‘Griffin’s Books’ include correspondence, invoices, tenancy agreements and cash books, whilst the personal papers include photograph albums, address books, and appointment diaries. Arrangement: U DTFG/1 Poetry Files U DTFG/2 Poetry Notebooks U DTFG/3 Poetry Publications U DTFG/4 Correspondence Files U DTFG/5 Griffins Books U DTFG/6 Personal Papers Extent: 379 items Related material: Letters to Tony Griffin from Douglas Dunn and other poets [U DP183] Hull Poets - Letters to Tony F. Griffin [U DP210] Papers of Douglas Eaglesham Dunn [U DDD] Access conditions: Access will be granted to any accredited reader page 1 of 65 Hull History Centre: Papers of Tony F. Griffin U DTFG/1 Poetry Files 1958- Includes poetry files containing draft typed and c.2015 handwritten poems by T.F. Griffin, and files relating to publicity concerning T.F. Griffin's poetry, poetry festivals and events, and publication of poetry works by T.F. Griffin. 77 items U DTFG/1/1 File. Old Notes c.1970s- Includes typed and handwritten draft poems by Tony F. c.1980s Griffin entitled 'If I was Mentor to the Child', 'The Profligate', 'Love's Lost', 'Argument', 'Childhood', 'Lover to Moonshine', 'Winter Coming On', 'Seagull's Dream', 'The Guilty Innocent', 'The Dinosaur', 'It Was Born into an Unquiet', 'Bird's Song Moved Earth to Find Heaven', 'The Flame', 'Holiday Hotel', 'Silently Lovers Witness the World', 'Beast in the City', 'Vigilantes', 'The Deceiver', 'The Tower', 'I Grew Old in the Second', 'My Anger Has Left Me Nothing but the Pain', 'School', 'Because He Had Nothing in the World Left to Say', 'I Heard a Singer in a Pub', 'I Look into Your Eyes', 'The Young Mother', 'The Bridge', 'The Lion', 'Ode to the British Public', 'I Had a Love', 'The Bright Side', 'The Child', 'The Plane', 'The Moon', 'Beneath the Knowing Sun', 'Grandmother', 'The Owl', 'Poem for Jane's Birthday', 'The Scorpion', 'Man Beyond Man', 'Song for an Ageing Hippie', 'Street Song', 'One Night on a Hill', and 'After Thomas' Problem'; handwritten, untitled draft poems by Tony F. Griffin; and a handwritten list of poems submitted to poetry magazines by Tony F. Griffin (1981). 1 file page 2 of 65 Hull History Centre: Papers of Tony F. Griffin U DTFG/1/2 File. Old Notes c.1970s- Includes typed and handwritten draft poems by Tony F. c.1980s Griffin entitled 'Fiction', 'The Confession', 'The Journey', 'The Tree's Entropy', 'If You Do Not Tell', 'Dawn Chorus', 'When Crisis Bore the Child', 'Man in a Corner', 'Where Does the Light Grow', 'The Flower', 'From the Beauty of the Inner Eye', 'The Hill', 'Silence', 'The Grub, the Spire and the Sun', 'The Dinosaur', The Uncommitted Priest', 'The Whirlwind', 'The Old Woman was Hungry', 'The Lonely Star', 'Silent Song', 'Vigilantes', 'The Plane', 'It's Not When the World', 'The Love Affair', 'The Eagle', 'The World Calls to My Growing', 'The Snail', 'When I Write By My Master's Head', 'Winter Sun', 'Creed', 'Poem in Blue', 'When Nothing Devised My Love', 'When You are in Absence', 'The Village', 'The Lane', 'Walking Home', 'When All the Spirits of My Soul Serve Me', 'The Electric Light', 'There Are Things That We Know', 'The Deaf Man', 'The Lover', 'Lover's Song', 'Needs', 'Snail's Story', 'Child's Song', 'Signing the Love', 'Against the Sun There is a Shadow', 'As the Snail', 'At the Beginning of Burning', 'The Listener', 'The Supper', 'The Guest', 'Lover to Moonshine', 'The Old Philosopher', 'I Am a Picture', 'Winter Coming On', and 'The Night Bird'. 1 file U DTFG/1/3 File. Old Notes c.1970s- Includes typed and handwritten draft poems by Tony F. c.1980s Griffin entitled 'Faustus in the Light', 'Faustus on Rock', 'Faustus in Fire', 'Faustus in Air', 'Faustus Dreamt', 'When the Desperate', 'The Wound', 'Vignette', 'Dates', 'The Doubt', 'Quilt', 'The Dance', 'The Quest', 'Augur', 'The Circumscription of Colour', 'I Came Out Into the Sun Un- Brutal Fire', 'Chasm', 'I Wanted to Hear Your Voice', 'This Seed Would Re-Create My Being', 'The Accuser', 'Ball and Chain', 'Interception', 'It Died in the Arms of the Storm', 'I Will Never Get Out of Here', 'Fog', 'Shadow on the Humber', 'The Last Summer', 'An Idea of Autumn', 'In- Patient', 'Approaching Thirty', 'Panorama', 'No Way to Be Kind', 'Bare Essentials', 'Morning', 'At the Blaze of Fever's Being', 'Pull', 'Newtown', 'Humber Romance', 'Invective', 'Dead Friend', 'Seagull's Quartet', 'Other Song', 'The Purpose', 'After Grandmother's Funeral', 'Spring Fever', 'Moments Between Us', 'It Stormed and was Quiet', 'The Old Butterfly', 'In Love with the Idea of a Flower', 'Coast Road', 'Lark's Song', 'The Judge Presided When Beauty Slept', 'The Old Woman', 'My Innocence Sleeps', and 'Winter Streets'. 1 file page 3 of 65 Hull History Centre: Papers of Tony F. Griffin U DTFG/1/4 File. Old Notes c.1970s- Includes typed and handwritten draft poems by Tony F. c.1980s Griffin entitled 'The Odd Crowd', 'The Valediction', 'With What I Know', 'Caligula', 'The Bell', 'Island', 'The Lover', 'The Bludgeoner', 'The Turner', 'The Devil at the Wedding of Energy', 'Remnants', 'The Sale', 'Deliverance', 'The Month', 'The Green Man', 'Sleep', 'Refusal to be Young', 'Manifesto', 'That Word I Searched', 'Still', 'A Single Chance', 'Summer', 'The Summons', 'Single Light', 'A Short History of Little God's Death', 'Five Miles High', 'Trains', 'At Seventy Nine', 'Western Song', 'To Bring to Bear', 'Outburst', 'Repeat', 'Spring', 'The Trembling Plant', 'Patricians Below the Sun', 'The Journey', 'Love', 'In', 'Cataract', 'Antinomian', 'The Bear', 'Bend', 'Buried His Brain in Booze', 'The Hill', 'Dromos', 'Spectre', 'Shard', 'Snow', 'The Park', 'The Photograph', 'Judas', 'World without Kingdom', 'Fust', 'Home', 'The Burden', 'Prelude', 'Bird Cry', 'In My Divers Intention', 'In and Out of Your Arms', 'Saga', 'Respite', 'He Asked Her About the Sun', 'Sound Barrier', 'Riding Out on Humber Dusk', 'It Started With the Fusion of Passion', 'Where I Chase and Rest', 'The Room', 'Mute Form', 'Searching With Your Eyes', 'The Smirk', 'The Touch', 'Evening', 'Old Priest', 'Love Song', 'Bare Essentials', 'Next Spring', 'When Your Love is Not Barren', 'Dune', 'Cloud's Requiem', 'Mood', 'Dusk on Pendle Hill', and 'When Crisis Bore the Child'; and various untitled draft poems. 1 file U DTFG/1/5 File. Old Notes c.1970s- Includes typed and handwritten draft poems by Tony F. c.1980s Griffin entitled 'Malcolm Lowry', 'Without Shadow', 'Desire', 'The Silence', 'Bête Noire', 'Summer Sun', 'The Child', 'The Holiday', 'Divorce', 'The Walk', 'The Flare', 'A Failure to Say', 'Recluse', 'Surrealist Song', 'The Frame', 'The Value', 'The Distance', 'The Coil', 'Woman Walking', 'The Silence', 'Alcohol', 'The Loser', 'Fog', 'When I am my Dictator's Love', 'Do Not Get Stale', 'Antinomy', 'The Whale', 'The Gargoyle', and 'Sleep and the Soft Divider'; and various untitled draft poems. 1 file U DTFG/1/6 File. Old Notes 1970s Includes typed and handwritten draft poems by T.F. Griffin entitled 'Birth (Bird) Song', 'The Antique Dealer', 'The Librarian', 'Seagull's Song', 'I Don't Feel Sorrow at my Grandmother's Grave', 'Through Man's Desperate Pages', 'Sad of Thinking', 'Nothing Drove Me to Bread and Crowds', 'At the Point of the Eclipse', 'Summer Holiday', 'I Knew Your Love Before I Cried', 'I Saw Woman', 'Song for a Dead Poet', 'For the Dead Artist', 'A Couple Sleeping', 'Immutable Being', 'To the Beat of the page 4 of 65 Hull History Centre: Papers of Tony F. Griffin U DTFG/1/6 Heart's Straining Sorrow', 'Man at the Door', 'Planes', 'The Silent Man', 'The End of it All', 'On the Wing and Song of continued a Bird', 'Song for Summer', 'Lament to Prof.