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 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. Some of the contract letters are signed by the invitee. Some correspondence discussing possible pa...
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the genesis of the idea of the festival, suggestions for the form and content of the festival, and the moves made to plan the event. Includes a notice of fraternal greetings from El Ateneo de Caracas.
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 correspondence, much of it of Ted Hughes, discussing potential participants. Correspondents include Al Alvarez, Patrick Kavanagh, and W. H. Auden. Also contains proforma contract letters sent to staff and participants in the festival setting out the event they were being invited to parti...
Contains invitations to appear at the festival. Correspondents include W. H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Brathwaite, Miroslav Holub, George Mackay Brown, Elizabeth Bishop, John Betjeman, Thom Gunn, Leroi Jones, Lawrence Durrell, Pablo Neruda, Antonin Bartusek, Robert Graves, Norman Mailer, King...
Papers relating to the Festival souvenir programme
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Contains correspondence and papers chiefly relating to advertising in the Festival souvenir programme, printing costs, and layout and content such as poets’ biographies. Includes correspondence with the participating poets, and some proofs and mock-ups.