Contains correspondence and papers relating to the planning, organisation, management, and content of the Festival. Includes budgets, proposed programmes, and a report on the Festival. Also includes correspondence with the organisers of the Commonwealth Arts Festival.
Contains correspondence relating to a press conference and festival parties, correspondence relating to an article for New Society by Eric W. White, Assistant Secretary of the Society, and a Festival programme leaflet.
Contains correspondence discussing poets who might be invited to participate, correspondence with poets invited to write new works for the Festival, and proforma contract letters (some signed) returned by the poets. Correspondents include Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Peter Porter, Randolph S...