Contains correspondence and papers chiefly relating to advertising in the Festival souvenir programme, as well as papers relating to printing costs and content such as poets’ biographies.
Contains correspondence and papers relating to sessions on: The Rebel in Poetry. American Poetry. Includes correspondence with Robert Lowell concerning his appearance at the Festival, Lowell’s schedule for his time in London, and correspondence with the American Embassy. European Voices. Includ...
Contains correspondence relating to the organisation of a Yeats exhibition to run alongside the 1961 Festival of Poetry. Includes correspondence with lenders and with the Whitworth Art Gallery which was itself planning to hold a Yeats exhibition earlier in 1961. Some of the material exhibited by ...
Contains correspondence relating to advertisements and advertising schedules, other poetry festivals, promotion of the festival and distribution of flyers and leaflets, press conferences, press articles, radio programmes, printing costs and distribution of Festival materials, and other publicity ...
Includes correspondence with John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Robin Skelton, the Irish Embassy, R. S. Thomas, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Vernon Watkins, and Philip Larkin.
Includes correspondence with Miodrag Pavlovic, Lydia Pasternak Slater, Rafael Pineda, Erich Fried, Rex Warner, Yves Bonnefoy, and embassies and cultural attachés.
Contains typescripts, some corrected, of poems by Thomas Blackburn, Austin Clarke, Michael Hamburger, Ted Hughes, Patrick Kavanagh, Norman MacCaig, Richard Murphy, Sylvia Plath, Hal Summers, R. S. Thomas, and Laurence Whistler.
Correspondence relating to Guinness commissioned poetry
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The correspondence discusses the poets to be commissioned, potential substitutes, the availability of the poets to read their work, and fees. Correspondents include Arthur Guinness Son & Co. and the commissioned poets.
Contains correspondence relating to a Festival session on poetry and music. Much of the correspondence relates to commissions to have Robert Graves’s poem ‘Counting the Beats’ set to music. Lennox Berkeley, Nicholas Maw, Richard Arnell, and Humphrey Searle accepted the commission and corresponden...