Correspondence relating to Guinness commissioned poetry
Scope & Content:
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 papers relating to the commissioning of new poetry for the festival by Guinness. The poets commissioned were: Thomas Blackburn, Austin Clarke, Michael Hamburger, Ted Hughes, Patrick Kavanagh, Norman MacCaig, Richard Murphy, Sylvia Plath, William Plomer, Hal Summers, R. S. Thomas, and Lau...
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.
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 ...