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
Scope & Content:
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.
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...
Poetry Book Society Anthology 1989-1990 - correspondents A-H
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Contains correspondence with poets regarding contributions to the anthology, and some submissions. Also contains correspondence relating to the planning and launch of the book.