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Add MS 88998/2/71
- Record Id:
- 040-002879579
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023808452.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/71
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Stevenson, Anne)
- Scope & Content:
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37 communications from Anne Stevenson.
- (1). Durham, 14 January 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'A word about the essay I gave you to read. I sent it to Michael Schmidt at PN Review. Like you, he agreed with a lot of it, but thought it too extreme, too opinionated, without enough examples given to support my polemic. Thinking it over myself, I have decided not to try to publish it. It can't do any good and will only make enemies; it was good for me to get my resentment of the prize-infected commercial poetry scene off my chest, but the only significant way to remedy matters is to write well oneself [....] So I will send the essay to my archivist in the Cambridge University Library and forget about it.' Harwood has read Stevenson's Astonishment (2012) in manuscript, the title poem of which (for Harry Guest) has still to be written.
- (2). Durham, 20 January 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet).
- (3). Durham, 12 April 2012. Autograph postcard. Further remarks on Harwood, 'Ben's Photo' (The Orchid Boat).
- (4). Llanbedr, 2 May 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet). Details of summer readings in London.
- (5). Durham, 31 May [2012]. Autograph postcard, with envelope.
- (6). Durham, 13 June 2012. Autograph postcard, with typed poem 'Paper' (2 sheets).
- (7). Durham, 2 July [2012]. Autograph postcard, with envelope.
- (8). Durham, 20 July 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet). Refers to London poetry reading, and to attending a memorial service in Harrogate for Anna Adams, 'a poet I've always admired and a dear friend'.
- (9). Durham, 5 August 2012. Autograph postcard.
- (10). Durham, 11 August 2012. Autograph postcard, together with typed poem 'The Oak Coffer' (1 sheet) by Harwood, on which Stevenson has 'made a few suggestions in pencil'.
- (11). Llanbedr, 15 September 2012. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Comments on Harwood's essay in draft on F. T. Prince ('F. T. Prince - A Generous Correspondence', Poetry Wales, 49:4, 2014, pp. 23-6.)
- (12). Durham, 13 October 2012. Autograph postcard. Having just received Tony Lopez (ed.), High on the Downs: A Festschrift for Harry Guest (2012).
- (13). [Durham], 11 December 2012 (postmark). Autograph postcard, with envelope.
- (14). Durham, 7 January 2013. Autograph postcard.
- (15). Durham, 18 January 2013. Folding card. Comments on Harwood, 'Sailing Westwards' (The Orchid Boat).
- (16). Llanbedr, 25 March 2013. Autograph postcard.
- (17). Llanbedr, 2 April 2013. Autograph postcard. Stevenson is reading at the British Academy on 23 May.
- (18). Durham, 23 April 2013. Autograph postcard.
- (19). Durham, 7 May 2013. Autograph postcard.
- (20). Durham, 28 May 2013. Autograph postcard.
- (21). Llanbedr, 3 July 2013. Typed letter (2 sheets). Stevenson is giving a lecture on Sylvia Plath ('my old antagonist') at the Ledbury Festival 'next week', and giving a reading in which she wants 'to celebrate, as a corrective to Plath, Frances Horovitz'. She is launching, with Eugene Dubnov, her book of translations of his poems in London on 14 August, at the Bookmark Bookshop.
- (22). Durham, 22 July 2013. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'I am glad to hear that Enitharmon is going to publish your slim new collection. The Orchid Boat is a fine title. It may console you to learn that Elizabeth Bishop only published ten poems in her final collection, Geography III. Nobody complained.'
- (23). Durham, 7 August 2013. Autograph postcard, together with an invitation (1 sheet) to the launch of Stevenson's Dubnov translations.
- (24). Durham, 4 December 2013. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing two typed poems (2 sheets), 'Anaesthesia' and 'Goodbye 2013'. The letter includes small suggestions in respect of two poems by Harwood from The Orchid Boat ('Childish' and 'A Steady Light').
- (25). Durham, 7 January 2014. Folding card (Nicholas Holt). 'I am applying to renounce my US citizenship'.
- (26). Durham, 9 February 2014. Autograph postcard.
- (27). Durham, 12 February 2014. Autograph postcard.
- (28). Durham, 27 February 2014. Autograph postcard.
- (29). Durham, 14 March 2014. Autograph postcard. Stevenson has renounced US citizenship at the US Embassy.
- (30). Durham, 26 April 2014. Two autograph postcards, with envelope, enclosing brief typed poem 'Shared' (1 small sheet).
- (31). Durham, 2 May 2014. Autograph postcard. Hoping to attend the launch (22 May) of The Orchid Boat.
- (32). Durham, 15 May 2014. Autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing typed poem (1 sheet) 'The Bully Thrush (Turdus philomelos)'.
- (33). Durham, 27 May 2014. Typed letter (2 sheets). Letter includes comments on Harwood reading at the launch of The Orchid Boat. 'I truly underwent a kind of conversion, or rather, an enlargement of understanding, hearing you read that selection of poems [...].'
- (34). Durham, 8 June 2014. Autograph postcard, with envelope, enclosing cutting from TLS (Frederic Raphael reviewing Cavafy, Complete Poems and Complete Plus).
- (35). Llanbedr, 23 June 2014. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing typed poem 'Pronunciation' (5 sheets). 'I'm sending you a rather long offering, written for Neil Astley who wants a poem for an issue of Ploughshares (US) he's editing this fall. It's really a story, or a fragment of a memoir, but I think it works as a narrative poem.
- (36). Durham, 18 July 2014. Typed letter (1 sheet).
- (37). Durham, 14 September 2014. Autograph postcard, together with typed poem (1 sheet) 'Improvisation' (in memory of Bernard Roberts, pianist, 1933-2013).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002879579 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/71 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Stevenson, Anne) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0072]/040-002879579
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2012
- End Date:
- 2014
- Date Range:
- 2012-2014
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Stevenson, Anne Katherine, poet and writer, 1933-2020