Includes photographs of John Ashbery (2 photographs), Edward Brathwaite (1), Edvard Kocbek (5), Edna O’Brien (4), Edna O’Brien and Margaret Drabble (2), Charles Osborne (1), Charles Osborne and [?], Janos Pilinszky (4), Peter Porter (2), and Stephen Spender (1). Photographs of unidentified poets...
Contains minutes of one meeting of the 1973 Festival Advisory Committee, a photocopy of a press cutting relating to the 1973 festival, a list of events for the 1973 festival, photocopies of press cuttings relating to the 1974 festival, and a transcript of a BBC Radio 4 programme on the festival.
Contains correspondence with the participating poets, the relevant embassies and cultural institutes, and the Fanfare for Europe director. Also includes verse in Dutch and Italian, and correspondence with translators. Correspondence and invitations relating to the event reception is also included.
The United Kingdom joined the European Community in 1973. To mark the occasion a nationwide series of cultural events took place. The Poetry Book Society’s contribution was Poets of Europe, an evening of readings by Alain Bosquet (France), Peter Huchel (West Germany), Maurits Mok (Netherlands), J...