Correspondence and papers relating to the foundation, constitution, and Articles of Association of the Poetry Book Society
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Includes invitations to meetings to discuss the foundation of the Society and correspondence with Erica Marx, Robert Lusty, Dennis M. Cohen, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, John Lehmann, John Murray, C. Day-Lewis, Peter du Sautoy, Stephen Spender, John Hayward, and representatives of other major publ...
Contains papers relating to press interest in the festival and a press conference, lists of organisations to whom promotional literature was to be sent, a festival poster, and press cuttings.
Contains a photograph of Pier Paolo Pasolini and multiple copies of a group photograph of Robert Bly, Janos Pilinszky, Edward Brathwaite, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Anthony Hecht, and Vasko Papa.
Contains correspondence and proofs of the book which contained a selection of the best poetry to have appeared in Society anthologies, a selection of poetry commissioned by the Society, and excerpts of prose and poetry comment from poets whose work was selected as a Society Choice or Recommendati...