Contains papers relating to the organisation, running, funding, and content of the festival. Includes correspondence of festival committee members, and committee minutes. Includes some discussion of poets who might be invited, including correspondence relating to the position of Czech poets. Also...
Includes photographs of John Ashbery (2 photographs), Edward Brathwaite (1), Edvard Kocbek (5), Edna O’Brien (4), Edna O’Brien and Margaret Drabble (2), Charles Osborne (1), Charles Osborne and [?], Janos Pilinszky (4), Peter Porter (2), and Stephen Spender (1). Photographs of unidentified poets...
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...
Correspondence and papers relating to advertising and publicity for the festival
Scope & Content:
Includes press releases and information; copy for, and proofs of, adverts; advertising budgets; brochures and leaflets; details of advertisers for the festival programme; and papers relating to advertising on London Transport.