Contains Board of Management minutes, papers, and correspondence, papers relating to elections to the Board, annual reports and accounts, annual general meeting minutes, and papers relating to the Society’s office premises, its archive, and requests for use of the mailing list.
Contains correspondence of various chairmen of the Society, correspondence of Eric W. White (Assistant Secretary of the Arts Council and Secretary of the Poetry Book Society), correspondence with publishers, and general correspondence.
Contains papers relating to poetry festivals and events run by, or held under the auspices of, the Poetry Book Society, including the biennial festivals of poetry, Poetry International, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Correspondence with, and papers relating to, the Arts Council
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence and papers relating, chiefly, to Arts Council grants to, and funding of, the Poetry Book Society. Papers relating to the Council’s 1991 appraisal of the Society and papers relating to W. H. Auden material in the Poetry Library of the Arts Council are also included.
Contains papers relating to the Poetry Society, its activities, and its relationship with the Poetry Book Society. The PS assumed formal responsibility for the administration of the PBS in 1984.
Contains correspondence relating to, and submissions (many in proof form) for, the quarterly Choice and Recommendation. Each quarter, selectors appointed by the Board of Management selected one book as the Choice. This book was sent to members as part of their membership. The selectors also chose...