Briggflatts

UK book first (Fulcrum, 1966), but with American periodical precedence: the poem's first appearance in print was in Poetry (Chicago), January 1966, months before the Fulcrum book appeared later that year; it had been read publicly at Morden Tower, Newcastle, on 22 December 1965. No separate American first edition of Briggflatts as a book is recorded — American readers met the poem in Poetry and then in the collected editions. So the Fulcrum 1966 volume is the only book first, in its three issues.