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In four parts on 'YouTube' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htVdIq8ID_g&feature=related. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.233.118 ( talk) 01:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
I've looked up the original publication in LRB, volume 7, issue 1, 24-01-1985, pp 12-13. The title there, in the TOC (between single-quotes, like all other poems), and again on page 12, consists of a lowercase-v followed by a fullstop. I checked the titles before and after it, they did not have a fullstop, so it's not LRB added punctuation.
Meanwhile, their website [1] lists the title as 'V.', capital-V-fullstop. Although my library subscribes to LRB and their website, "For copyright or other reasons, this article is not available online." I suspect it's "other reasons".
His publisher uses 'v.' on their webpage and about the book. I will note that their internal links at the bottom use V., with a capital-V. Amazon.com lists it as 'v.' and also (but note cover artwork has V.) The TOC of his Selected Poems lists it as 'v.'.
This is so definitive, I'm going to move this page to V. (poem). That's with a capital-V, because the WP software does not allow for lowercase initial letters in article titles, they are automatically converted to uppercase. However, there's a template to render the article title as lower case, which I'll then put in. Choor monster ( talk) 17:20, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved per consensus for house style — JFG talk 15:39, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
v. (poem) → V (poem) – To remove the full stop. Neither of the two cited independent sources include the full stop (or use lowercase). Wikipedia has its own styling guidance (e.g., MOS:TM, WP:TITLETM, MOS:CT) and does not necessarily follow self-published styling – especially when usage in reliable sources does not consistently follow self-published styling – and decorative full stops, and especially terminating full stops, are generally frowned upon in Wikipedia article titles. — BarrelProof ( talk) 18:46, 3 July 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. — Guan aco 08:03, 12 July 2017 (UTC)