Gael Turnbull Papers

Collection

Identifier: 1998-0216

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Letters of Turnbull to Melville Hardiment on personal and literary matters. The collection also includes a few poems and an essay on Basil Bunting (cf. 17 January 1965).

Dates

undated, 1965-1973

Access

The collection is open and available for research.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.

Biography

Gael Turnbull was born 7 April 1928, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Ralph Gale (a minister) and Anne (Lundin) Turnbull. He attended Cambridge University (B.A., 1948) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1951). Awarded the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Prize (1965) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (1968), Turnbull has been a Physician in general practice and anesthesiologist in Worcestershire, England, since 1951. His poetry has been published since 1954.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Gael Turnbull was born 7 April 1928, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended Cambridge University (B.A., 1948) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1951). Awarded the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Prize (1965) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (1968), Turnbull has been a Physician in general practice and anesthesiologist in Worcestershire, England, since 1951. His poetry has been published since 1954.

Acquisition Information

Provenance unknown. Probable purchase

Related Material

Archives & Special Collections has a substantial collection of literary manuscripts. See especially, papers of Larry Eigner, Charles Olson and Tom Raworth. For detailed information on these collections please contact the curator or ask at the Reading Room desk.

Bibliography

General note

Writings by the Author:

Poem

(With Eli Mandel and Phyllis Webb) Trio, Contact Press (Toronto), 1954.
The Knot in the Wood and Fifteen Other Poems, Revision Press (London), 1955.
Bjarni Spike-Helgi's Son and Other Poems, Origin Press (Ashland, Mass.), 1956.
A Libation, The Poet (Glasgow), 1957.
With Hey, Ho...., Migrant Press (Birmingham, England), 1961.
To You, I Write, Migrant Press, 1963.
A Very Particular Hill, Wild Hawthorn Press, 1963.
Twenty Words, Twenty Days: A Sketchbook and a Morula, Migrant Press, 1966.
Briefly, Tarasque Press (Nottingham, England), 1967.
A Trampoline: Poems 1952-1964, Cape Goliard Press, 1968.
I Maksoud, University of Exeter, 1969.
Scantlings: Poems 1964-69, Cape Goliard Press, 1970.
Finger Cymbals, Satis (Edinburgh), 1972.
A Random Sampling, Pig Press (New castle-upon-Tyne, England), 1974.
Wulstan, Blue Tunnel (Bradford England), 1975.
Witley Court Revisited, Migrant Press, 1975.
Residues, Grosseteste (Staffordshire, England), 1976.
Thronging the Heart, Aggie Weston, 1976.
If a Glance Could Be Enough, Satis, 1978.
Rain in Wales, Satis, 1981.
A Gathering of Poems, 1950-1980 (a retrospective collected edition of earlier work), Anvil Press (London), 1983.
(With John Christie) Nine Intersections, Circle Press (Guildford), 1982.
Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 1999.