[Terence Tiller, poet and radio producer.] Heavily-revised Autograph Draft ['Work-sheet'] of his poem 'Camels', with signed inscription; together with a typescript of the poem, also signed (both signatures 'Terence Rogers Tiller').

Tiller's entry in the Oxford DNB explains the background to this poem. In 1939 he 'went to Cairo to teach English literature and history at Fuad I University. During the Second World War he became closely associated with the group surrounding Personal Landscape, a review in the Middle East that had been founded and was edited by Lawrence Durrell, Robin Fedden, and Bernard Spencer'. Two items, both in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: Autograph Draft of the poem, in pencil, with numerous deletions, emendations and rubbings-out. 1p, folio. With its energy and seeming-confusion, it could serve as an example of the creative process. At the foot of the page Tiller has written in ink: 'Work-sheet of Camels. | Terence Rogers Tiller | With compliments, | May 1965.' TWO: Typescript of 'Camels'. 1p, 4to. Poem of sixteen lines, arranged in four four-line stanzas. Neatly typed without corrections or emendations, and displaying no differences from the published version. Signed at foot: 'Terence Rogers Tiller | May 1965'. The poem first appeared in 1947 in Horizon Magazine, before republication in the same year in Tiller's collection 'Unarm, Eros'.