Contains correspondence with, and relating to, the Royal Festival Hall, two of whose venues (Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room) were used as the venues for the festival.
Contains papers relating to press interest in the festival and a press conference, lists of organisations to whom promotional literature was to be sent, a festival poster, and press cuttings.
Contains papers relating to the organisation, running, budget, and content of the festival. Correspondents include Ted Hughes, Patrick Garland, Roy Fuller, Frank Kermode, and the Greater London Council. Includes draft budgets, correspondence discussing poets who might be invited to participate, a...
Contains correspondence inviting poets to take part in the festival, and proforma contract letters sent to participants setting out the event they were being invited to participate in and their fee. Correspondents include Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, George Seferis, Lawrence Durrell, Gunter Grass, ...
Contains a photograph of Pier Paolo Pasolini and multiple copies of a group photograph of Robert Bly, Janos Pilinszky, Edward Brathwaite, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Anthony Hecht, and Vasko Papa.
Contains papers relating to the organisation, running, and content of the festival. Correspondents include Ted Hughes, Patrick Garland, George MacBeth, John Stallworthy, and Humphrey Burton. Includes correspondence discussing poets who might be invited to participate, and confirming those who hav...