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| Berenice Sydney Screenprint with Balance 1974 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| Ceri Richards Violon d'Ingres 1970 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| John Hoyland Dido 1979 etching Tate Gallery |
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| John Hoyland Rankin 1979 etching and aquatint Tate Gallery |
from A Man of Words
Those tangled versions of the truth are
Combed out, the snarls ripped out
And spread around. Behind the mask
Is still a continental appreciation
Of what is fine, rarely appears and when it does is already
Dying on the breeze that brought it to the threshold
Of speech. The story worn out from telling.
All diaries are alike, clear and cold, with
The outlook for continued cold. They are placed
Horizontal, parallel to the earth,
Like the unencumbering dead. Just time to reread this
And the past slips through your fingers, wishing you were there.
– John Ashbery, published in Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking, 1975)
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| Howard Hodgkin For Bernard Jacobson 1979 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Bernard Leach Drawing for a Pot 1973 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Henry Moore Reclining Figure with Interior Setting II 1977 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Henry Moore Homage to Sacheverell Sitwell 1979 lithograph Tate Gallery |
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| Ian Tyson Pathway 1974 screenprint Tate Gallery |
The Unwritten
Inside this pencil
crouch words that have never been written
never been spoken
never been taught
they're hiding
they're awake in there
dark in the dark
hearing us
but they won't come out
not for love not for time not for fire
even when the dark has worn away
they'll still be there
hiding in the air
multitudes in days to come may walk through them
breathe them
be none the wiser
what script can it be
that they won't unroll
in what language
would I recognize it
would I be able to follow it
to make out the real names
of everything
maybe there aren't
many
it could be that there's only one word
and it's all we need
it's here in this pencil
every pencil in the world
is like this
– W.S. Merwin, from Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment (Atheneum, 1973)
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| Ian Tyson Letter II [Fountain Music] 1971 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| Ian Tyson Untitled 1975 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| William Turnbull 5 (from Fugue series) 1971 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| John Walker Conservatory I 1979 screenprint Tate Gallery |
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| John Walker Conservatory II 1979 screenprint Tate Gallery |