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• Title: Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
• Authors: Mervyn Peake , Maeve Gilmore
• Year: 1981-00-00
• ISBN-10: 0-87951-121-4
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87951-121-0
• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Price: $25.00
• Pages: 576
• Binding: hc
• Type: COLLECTION
• Title Reference: Peake's Progress
• Cover: Mervyn Peake
• ISFDB Record Number: 336087
• Notes: Edited by Maeve Gilmore
• Bibliographic Comments: Add new Publication comment (PKSPRGRSSB1981)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 13 • Introduction (Peake's Progress) • essay by John Watney
• 35 • The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 45 • The Touch o' the Ash • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 63 • Mr Slaughterboard • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 95 • Mocus Poems • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 95 •  Mocus Poems • interior artwork by Mervyn Peake
• 103 • The House of Darkstones • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 113 • The Giraffe • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 114 • The Jailor and the Jaguar • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 115 • How Mournful to Imagine • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 116 • The Hippopotamus • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 117 • I Waxes, and I Wanes, Sir • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 121 • The Weird Journey • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 126 • I Bought a Palm-Tree • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 131 • The Connoisseurs • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 134 • Danse Macabre • (1963) • shortstory by Mervyn Peake
• 143 • Same Time, Same Place • (1963) • shortstory by Mervyn Peake
• 153 • Sing I the Fickle, Fit-for-Nothing Fellows • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 154 • The Cocky Waters • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 155 • Rhondda Valley • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 158 • Palais de Danse • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 160 • The Shapes • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 162 • May 1940 • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 163 • Fort Darland • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 164 • London, 1941 • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 165 • Digging a Trench • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 166 • The Boy • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 167 • Dead Rat • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 168 • The Consumptive, Belsen 1945 • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 170 • Victims • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 171 •  The Quest for Sita • interior artwork by Mervyn Peake
• 179 • Boy in Darkness • [Gormenghast] • (1956) • novella by Mervyn Peake
• 235 • Introduction to 'Drawings by Mervyn Peake' • essay by Mervyn Peake
• 245 • Van Gogh • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 246 • El Greco • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 247 • Rembrandt • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 248 • Blake • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 251 • Conceit • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 251 • Eagle • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 251 • The Two Fraternities • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 252 • 'the paper is breathless' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 252 • The Vastest Things • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 253 • Rather Than a Little Pain • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 254 • Coloured Money • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 255 • To Live at All Is Miracle Enough • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 255 • With People, So With Trees • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 256 • 'Out of the overlapping' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 257 • A Reverie of Bone • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 267 • The Wit to Woo • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 267 •  The Wit to Woo • interior artwork by Mervyn Peake
• 375 •  Figures of Speech • interior artwork by Mervyn Peake
• 383 • Noah's Ark • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 445 • The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 445 •  The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb • interior artwork by Mervyn Peake
• 469 • Notes for a Projected Autobiography • essay by Mervyn Peake
• 491 • 'How good is it to be alone' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 492 • Aunts and Uncles • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 497 • The Bull-Frog and the Flies • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 499 • The Rhino and the Lark • (1976) • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 501 • Tintinnabulum • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 508 • Oh, Here It Is! And There It Is! • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 509 • The Trouble With Geraniums • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 510 • I Cannot Give the Reasons • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 511 • 'Come, break the news to me, Sweet Horse' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 513 • Shrink! Shrink! • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 514 • 'An old and crumbling parapet' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 515 • 'Fish or fowl, it's all the same' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 515 • 'She stared at him' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 517 • For Mr Pye - An Island • shortfiction by Mervyn Peake
• 517 •  For Mr Pye - An Island • interior artwork by Mervyn Peake
• 563 • In the Fabric of This Love • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 563 • To Maeve • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 564 • Absent from You • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 565 • For Maeve • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 566 • Tides • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 567 • Grottoed Beneath Your Ribs • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 569 • Because Last Night My Child Clung to My Neck • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 570 • 'My arms are rivers' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 573 • The Three • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 574 • 'Thunder the Christ of it' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 574 • When Tiger-Men Sat their Mercurial Coursers • (1978) • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 575 • 'Hail! Tommy-Two-legs' • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 575 • An Ugly Crow Sits Hunched on Jackson's Heart • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 576 • 'When I was wounded' • poem by Mervyn Peake

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