Add MS 88909/149

File divided into two parts:

(1) Assorted items (excluding Minutes to meetings and associated papers), including:

• various notes in Cobbing's hand;
• London Poetry Secretariat News (Spring 1975);
• Arvon Foundation Ltd Annual Report and Accounts 1975/76;
• outline details of Armand Schwerner;
• information about the Arts Council Shop;
• Gay C Alexander, 'What Happened' (Muffet, 1976 - produced Consortium of London Presses, National Poetry Centre);
• list of 'Print-Shop Publications' (1976);
• information sheet [1976] announcing 'New Officers of Poetry Society' - 'the new Chairman for the coming year is Mr Jeff Nuttall';
• Proposal for Small Press Distribution Centre (October 1977);
• Michael Horovitz, 'The new poetry in Britain: some notes from two decades' (1977, corrected copy typescript);
• financial information concerning National Poetry Centre Library.

(2) Various items directly related to the Arts Council Report (Sir John Witt, 1976) on the Poetry Society, and events preceding it, including:

• newspaper cuttings;
• various statements objecting to the Report;
• scatalogical material addressed to Eric Mottram circulated at a poetry reading (10 October 1975);
• a 'New Manifesto of the Poetry Society' (Jeff Nuttall, 1976);
• 'Press Communikay from the Dada Movement of great britain on the subject of the AGM of the National Poetry Society 12 June 76' (Bernard J Kelly, John Digby, et al);
• update on National Poetry Centre Bookshop (Lawrence Upton, June 1977);
• and some notes in Cobbing's hand.

NB: there is not a copy of the Witt Report in Cobbing's papers.