Tennant, Stephen James Napier [21 April 1906 – 28 February 1987]

Wilsford Manor, nd, manuscript in black ink, some splashes of other colours, some edge fraying and dust staining

330 x 200 mm

Two poems on a single sheet The Kestrel: “The secret brown of Kestrel wings, suits my hidden passion Insistantly, one memory returns, like a neat svelte brown falcon” [22 lines] and Visionary protest. “We, who has remembered the solace of the fairy tale, stand aside. We, who disgorge reality, to find the substance was not edible...” [19 lines]

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