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Add MS 88998/2/70
- Record Id:
- 040-002879554
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023806726.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/70
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Stevenson, Anne)
- Scope & Content:
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28 communications from Anne Stevenson.
- (1). Durham, 13 January 2009. Autograph postcard. 'I have written a poem about Rembrandt' (see next letter).
- (2). [Durham], 16 January 2009 (postmark). Typed poem 'An Early Attempt in the Changing Room' (2 sheets), with envelope. Stevenson's poem about Rembrandt, annotated at the head of the first sheet: 'This is for the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool'.
- (3). Durham, 6 February 2009. Autograph card, with typed poem 'Doppler' (1 sheet).
- (4). Durham, 12 February 2009. Autograph postcard. With a cutting from London Review of Books (12 February 2009): a poem by August Kleinzahler, 'A Wine Tale' (for Lee Harwood). Stevenson writes: 'What the poem catches is your enthusiasm for life on earth!'
- (5). Durham, 22 February 2009. Autograph postcard.
- (6). Durham, 24 April 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'I've been tring to write a poem all month called "Teaching my sons to swim in Walden Pond". It's got above my head, I'm just wallowing. I should take a leaf out of your book and make it simple. The old frog swims up from the muddy bottom to the glitter on the pond's surface. Thank you, Lee, for these moments of illumination and inspiration!' (Alludes to Harwood, 'Winchester Pond').
- (7). Llanbedr, 20 May 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet), enclosing typed poem 'Teaching my Sons to Swim in Walden Pond' (3 sheets). The poem has been accepted by The Hudson Review, along with two other poems.
- (8). Durham, 13 August 2009. Autograph postcard, with typed poem 'Elegy: In Coherent Light' (1 sheet).
- (9). Llanbedr, 8 September 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet), with two typed versions (2 sheets) of 'Elegy: In Coherent Light'. 'I have revised In Coherent Light, softening the atheism a bit in the second stanza.'
- (10). Durham, 12 October 2009. Autograph postcard, with typed poem translation (Eugene Dubnov) 'When We Were [New Leaves]' (1 sheet). 'I am doing some translations from Russian and enclose one I think worked.'
- (11). Durham, 13 October 2009. Typed letter (2 sheets). Comments on draft passages from Harwood, 'Departures' (The Orchid Boat, 2014).
- (12). Durham, 16 November 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'I am, for my sins, translating poems from cribs of the Russian by a Latvian poet now teaching in Jerusalem, Eugene Dubnov.' Also translating German poems of Hilde Domin (1909-2006). On the verso of the letter, a draft translation of Dubnov ('I didn't mean to send this on the back of my letter - but you might be interested').
- (13). An undated typed poem (2 sheets) entitled 'The Password' ('for Peter') which is unattached to letter or envelope but was found amongst Stevenson's letters of 2009.
- (14). [Durham], 28 February 2010. Autograph postcard, with envelope. 'Have been reviewing American poetry, am charmed by James Schuyler.'
- (15). Durham, 10 May 2010. Typed letter (1 sheet). Comments on reading, in draft, Harwood, 'The Books' (The Orchid Boat, 2014).
- (16). Durham, 13 June 2010. Typed letter (2 sheets). 'We got back from our adventures on the Continent last Tuesday'.
- (17). Llanbedr, 16 July 2010. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing typed poem 'Wuthering' (1 sheet). 'As I may have told you, I've been asked to chair the Eliot Prize panel of judges.'
- (18). Durham, 1 August 2010. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing two typed poems, 'Drench' (a revision of 'Wuthering') and 'On Reflection' (2 sheets). 'I'm steeling myself to receive 123(!) books and manuscripts tomorrow from the PBS.'
- (19). Llanbedr, 26 September 2010. Autograph postcard.
- (20). Durham, 10 December 2010. Bespoke folding card incorporating printed poem ('October Song') by Stevenson.
- (21). Durham, 30 January 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing the text of Stevenson's announcement (24 January 2011) of the T S Eliot Prize for 2010 (2 sheets).
- (22). Llanbedr, 16 March 2011. Autograph postcard, together with a typescript draft (5 sheets) of Harwood's essay 'The parable of Tristan Tzara and the callow youth', marked with Stevenson's suggestions in pencil. (Published Poetry Wales, 47:2, 2011, pp. 25-9.)
- (23). Durham, 21 April 2011. Autograph postcard and 2 supplementary 'PS' sheets. 'I have enormously enjoyed "Ben's Photo", one of your very best'.
- (24). Llanbedr, 25 May 2011. Autograph postcard.
- (25). Llanbedr, 23 July 2011. Autograph card.
- (26). Durham, 12 November 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet) and postcard (Vermeer, 'Mistress and Maid' - 'what's in that letter? I wonder'). Having returned from six weeks in America, travelling and giving readings.
- (27). [Durham], 27 November 2011. Autograph postcard. Includes the comment: 'I think you need "other children running by" in the last stanza'. (Refers to Harwood, 'It all comes back to Vassilis Tsitsanis', The Orchid Boat).
- (28). [Durham], 14 December 2011. Typed poem 'Demeter and her Daughter' (3 sheets), with a dated yellow 'post it' note on the first sheet'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002879554 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/70 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Stevenson, Anne) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0071]/040-002879554
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2009
- End Date:
- 2011
- Date Range:
- 2009-2011
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Stevenson, Anne Katherine, poet and writer, 1933-2020