Found --  a slim volume of poetry from 1927 Lodequest: A Ballad of the Grail (Ancient House, Ipswich 1927) by Herbert Hudson. His wife prod...

The late Frank Kermode is best known today as the most prominent Romantic critic in twentieth century English letters---a more intelligen...

John Heath-Stubbs by  Patrick Swift Coming across a copy of a relatively recent booklet entitled The Guide to Bayswater (Sunrise Press)...

Found - a 1967 Corgi paperback Love, love, love: the new love poetry. It was edited by Pete Roche the subject of a recent jot where he wrot...

Found in a  University of London College magazine from December 1921 this poem/ parody by the novelist  Stella Gibbons . She was 19 at the t...

Found in a copy of New & Selected Poems by Donald Davie  (Wesleyan University Press, 1961) a handwritten letter from the author. A good...

Two other contenders could be Diana Dors (nee Fluck ) and Desmond ' Human Zoo' Morris. This letter, from a perhaps less famous Swin...

Found in - Vladimir Nabokov: a Descriptive Bibliography by Michael Juliar (Garland, N.Y. & London 1986) this description of Nabokov...

Whatever—or whoever—could have brought publicly together ‘pylon’ poet Stephen Spender (1909 – 95) and Herbert Read (1893–1968), art cri...

Found in a copy Poems at White Nights (published in 1899 in Cecil Court, London) a contemporary review of the book. The review is unsigned ...

Found-- Martin Stone's  Forgotten Shelf book catalogue no. 5: Modern Literature Fantasy and Detective Fiction - November 1982. The macab...

The poet who composed the long love poem, The Angel of  the House , which appeared in four volumes from 1854, became, like many of his gener...

The recent Jot reproducing manifestos from The Idler that celebrate freedom from the corporatist world remind me of a wonderfully invocat...

Has it ever been acknowledged that the memorable and now iconic line of Wilfred Owen- ‘the pity of war’ is actually the title of a novel fro...

This scrap of doggerel, found among a collection of holograph letters, has no name attached. It is bad enough to be by William McGonagall...

Yoxford Church Found - amongst a collection of Suffolk ephemera - this one page poem about a late lamented vet who died in the year of t...

Edith Sitwell by Roger Fry Not sure where this came from but it is most likely to be from the voluminous papers of 'Evoe' - i....

Found among a lot of miscellaneous papers, some religious - this poem by one William Allen about the Titanic disaster. It is dated May 1912,...

Found in a slim volume of verse from 1891 'printed for private circulation' - this poem about The Briar Rose  - a series of 4 relate...

Found - an album of poems among books and ephemera from the St. Clair Erskine family - sons of Lord Rosslyn (1869-1939) whose Calcot Park an...