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040-002878558

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032-002354004

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Add MS 88998/2/57

Title:

Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Reed, Jeremy)

Scope & Content:

59 communications from Jeremy Reed.

(1). London, 2 July 2004. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Offering congratulations on Harwood's Collected Poems, and proposing to write a review for Tears in the Fence.
(2). London, 12 July 2004. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Review proposal accepted.
(3). London, 29 September 2004. Autograph postcard with Reed's review (10 sheets, word-processed).
(4). London, 14 October 2004. Autograph letter (3 sheets). Reed is 'putting together a collection of essays for a book by Enitharmon Press called The Poem in a Little Black Dress', which will include his review essay on Harwood.
(5). London, 28 November 2004. Autograph letter (3 sheets).
(6). London, 23 January 2005. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Proposes limited edition printing of Harwood, 'As your eyes are blue...' (Collected Poems, pp. 28-9).
(7). London, 13 March 2005. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Intends to write another essay on Harwood in the summer, concentrating on The Man with Blue Eyes (1966).
(8). London, 20 November 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Interested in tracking down Asa Benveniste's uncollected poetry.
(9). London, 28 November 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Brief comnments on 'Departures' (The Orchid Boat, 2014). 'I'm determined to get Asa Benveniste's Collected Poems out.' Reed's book of essays for Enitharmon is now to be called 'Bad Boys'.
(10). London, 17 January 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers to a joint reading with Harwood at The Cut, Waterloo, in February.
(11). London, 21 February 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Reed has made contact with Agneta Falk regarding Benveniste's poetry, and recalls meeting Benveniste on Jersey when he was a schoolboy.
(12). London, 23 May 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(13). London, 13 June 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(14). London, 7 February 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Proposes a joint reading. 'I want to incorporate "As Your Eyes Are Blue" and give it a very special interpretation.'
(15). London, 23 April [2011]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Looking forward to reading with Harwood 'at RADA bar on 17 May'. Interested in contacing Stuart Montgomery.
(16). London, 11 May 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). The joint reading with Harwood will now be at the October Gallery, 24 May. Would like to conduct an interview with Harwood.
(17). London, 29 May 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Harwood's reading has been recorded with a view to making 'a limited edition CD from Joe Di Maggio [Press]'. Keen on conducting an interview.
(18). London, 20 June 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Hoping to visit and interview Harwood in July.
(19). London, 5 August 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Interview conducted, which Reed hopes to include with the recording of Harwood reading at the October Gallery. Would like to conduct a further interview. Has made contact with Yale about Harwood's archive [Reed's papers are at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library].
(20). London, 3 September 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers to the publication of Street Illegal, a collection of uncollected poems by John Wieners collated by Reed.
(21). London, 20 September 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I'll see to it that Patricia [Scanlan] sends you Street Illegal, simply a heap of poems I photocopied from small press magazines in the basement of Red Snapper Books [Cecil Court] when I was working there.'
(22). London, 20 November 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Contact established with the British Library about Harwood's archive.
(23). London, [5 December 2011]. Undated autograph letter, with envelope.
(24). London, 28 December 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Mark Jackson is in the process of arranging a reading for us at the Poetry Library for the early part of next year, where I'm sure we will dazzle, after the poorly organised event at the October Gallery.' Harwood is preparing an inventory of his papers.
(25). London, 10 January [2012]. Autograph postcard, with envelope. 'I've forwarded your archive list to Chris Beckett at the BL.'
(26). London, 29 February 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(27). London, 14 March 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(28). London, 19 May 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Having received a postcard from Harwood from New York. 'I hope you managed to see JA [John Ashbery], it's impossible to think of him old, only young in his work.'
(29). London, 28 May [2012]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'It's going to be hard to place my book on Dilly rent boys due to the subject matter. The British sensibility is so closed isn't it, or what Burroughs called a "pernicious club".'
(30). London, 9 June 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(31). London, 5 July 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I hope you'll have news from the BL soon.'
(32). London, 29 July 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I really must look at Frank Prince's work again on your recommendation'.
(33). London, 12 August [2012]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
(34). London, 22 September 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I've just been writing about you as one of the poets incorporated in a weird paper I'm giving on October 11 called The Influence of the Rolling Stones on British and American Counterculture Poetry, for the Temenos Academy - I do one off the wall talk for them each year.'
(35). London, 29 October 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'What wonderful news: I'm so thrilled that the BL now have your fabulous archive'.
(36). London, 1 December 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(37). London, [7 December 2012]. Undated autograph letter, with envelope. 'You ask about my room [...].'
(38). London, 24 January 2013. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I gave Stephen [Stuart-Smith, Enitharmon Press] a copy of your Collected Poems a couple of years ago and he was soon won over and would love to meet you Lee.'
(39). London, 18 February 2013. Autograph letter(1 sheet). 'I performed at the National Portrait Gallery last Friday with the Ginger Light, my two musicians, to 250-300 people - we got a fantastic reception.'
(40). [London], 6 March [2013]. Autograph card, with envelope. 'Very much look forward to seeing you on March 14'.
(41). London, 14 March 2013. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(42). London, 25 March 2013. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Seeking Stuart Montgomery's address: 'I've always wanted to do an extensive prose piece on Fulcrum/Trigram/Cape Goliard, the seminal publishers of almost everything worth reading in British/US poetry'.
(43). London, 5 April 2013. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Refers to James Schuyler: 'like you I have unstoppable enthusiasm for Other Flowers, arguably his best book, the poem for John Ashbery is stunning, and the randomised, anecdotal, disconnected themes he makes so inimitably and casually his own revs up the reader's juices.'
(44). London, 1 May 2013. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Reed has performed at the V&A 'for the [David] Bowie exhibition [...] and last night I gave a talk at Society Club in Soho called Absinthe, Delirium and Rimbaud's Punk Attitude.'
(45). London, 12 May 2013. Autograph letter (2 sheets). 'I'm so glad you've initialized contact with Stephen at Enitharmon about a new collection' [i.e.The Orchid Boat, 2014].
(46). London, 25 May 2013. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers to the death of Bill Franks (1925-2013). 'I did a very weird experiment between Dec-March, and that was to rewrite all of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, calling them The Bill Boy Remixes and putting the gay love story with Mr. W.H. into a very modern language and context, while keeping the form, rhyme scheme and theme of the original.'
(47). London, 11 July 2013. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Congratulates Harwood receiving a Cholmondeley Award. 'Enitharmon are doing two new books by me, and one is an epic 180 page poem on the Stones [...].'
(48). London, 27 October 2013. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Reed gave a reading the opening of Enitharmon's 'new HQ in Bury Place, by the British Museum [....] We should each have a book out from the next year, your Orchid Boat and my Sooner or Later Frank.'
(49). London, 24 November [2013]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I'm glad you had a good week with Rafe [son] in New York [...].'
(50). [London], 24 February 2014. Autograph postcard. 'Stephen [Stuart-Smith] tells me he is thrilled to be doing your Orchid Boat, and wants to do our book of conversations.'
(51). London, 23 March 2014. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(52). [London], 5 April 2014. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Working on a biography of Lou Reed.
(53). [London], 22 April, 2014. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(54). [London], 26 April [2014]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Refers to Reed, The Glamour Poet (2014).
(55). [London], 8 May 2014. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(56). [London], 26 May 2014. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Comments on the launch (22 May) of The Orchid Boat.
(57). [London], 8 June [2014]. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(58). London, 8 July [2014]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Reed has just completed his Lou Reed biography: 'a huge effort only begun in late January - and drawing on no word from my previous heavily expurgated biography for Picador in the nineties, torn apart by lawyers for fear of libel.'
(59). London, 30 August 2014. Autograph letter (2 sheets).

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Latin

Start Date:

2004

End Date:

2014

Date Range:

2004-2014

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Reed, Jeremy, poet, b 1951