Poetry Book Society facsimile holograph poems series
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence with poets inviting them to contribute and with the poets who agreed to do so, and correspondence with Poetry Book Society management and printers. Also contain a printed edition of the third booklet in the series, Judgment Day by R. S. Thomas. Mock-ups of Judgment Day are...
Correspondence of the Poetry Book Society and publishers
Scope & Content:
Much of the correspondence relates to submissions for the Society’s quarterly Choice and Recommendation. Further correspondence, and proof copies of some submissions, can be found at Add MS 88984/5/1-28 and Add MS 88985/5/29-59.
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the proposal to establish a series of Ronald Duncan lectures, and relating to the planning and organisation of, and publicity for, the first lecture, given by Derek Walcott on 29 September 1990. Includes correspondence with Walcott, Desmond Clarke of...
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the planning and organisation of, and publicity for, the lecture, given by James Fenton on 7 November 1992. Includes correspondence with Fenton, Desmond Clarke of the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation, Blake Morrison, and Tony Harrison, who turned do...
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the planning and organisation of, and publicity for, the lecture, given by Eavan Boland on 5 November 1994. Includes correspondence with Boland and Desmond Clarke of the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation. Includes printed and typescript versions of t...