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Add MS 89160/5/3
- Record Id:
- 040-003257409
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003252121
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028060968.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89160/5/3
- Title:
- Barry Miles reference folders: '1961 Until the 1965 Albert Hall Poetry Reading'
- Scope & Content:
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- Letter from the Bristol Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament asking Miles to invite the Cheltenham people to a demonstration in Western-super-Mare on the August Bank Holiday, 17 July 1961.
- Postcard from Geoffrey Hazard mentioning his contribution to Tree, 25 October 1961.
- Envelope addressed to Miles from New Departures, January 1961.
- Programme for the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh, May-July, 1962.
- Clipping of article Uproar as girl strips at big conference from the Sunday Mirror, 8 September 1963.
- Contact sheet with images of Michael Horovitz, 1964 (copyright John Hopkins).
- Danger – Official Secrets, 3rd edition, 1964. This was a clandestine publication which revealed the secret regional seats of government.
- The Four Pennies business card.
- Receipts from the Copyright Receipt Office, British Museum, for Long Hair, 27 May 1966, Horde, 1 December 1965, and Night Train, 9 July 1964.
- Flyer for Emma’s, a floating discotheque, 1965.
- Better Books paper bag designed by John Sewell; Better Books colour bookmark, 1965; Better Books owner Tony Godwin’s business card, 1965; Announcement card for the SKOOB installation by John Latham; Clipping of review of sTigma installation from Peace News, 12 March 1965; flyer for Better Books paperback sale, drawn by Miles, July 1965; and documentation relating to the loan of these items to the Flat Time House London and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, for the exhibition Better Books: Art, Anarchy and Apostasy, June 2012-January 2013.
- Clipping of Stirring Times, letter from Michael Horovitz to the editor of The Times Literary Supplement, 2 September 1965.
- Open Letter from Bart Huges to Professor Dr J. Ariens Kappers, on the subject of the lecture…Some modern conceptions about the structure and function of the Eye of Shiva, the pineal gland and epiphysis, Amsterdam, 23 August 1965.
- Notes from Tartares by Neal Phillips, prototype photocopy given to Miles for use in Long Hair 1965 - Eventually used in The Book of Grass, 1967 (One page missing, one page duplicated - 9 pages).
- Allen Ginsberg at Better Books, transcript of spoken introductions to the poems used on the record by Ian Sommerville, with some annotations in Ian’s hand - Sommerville tape-recorded the reading by Ginsberg at Better Books.
- Seven contact sheets with images of: Allen Ginsberg’s 39th birthday party, 1965; three images of Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi reading in Hampstead, 1965; Ginsberg reading at the Architectural Association, 1965 (copyright John Hopkins).
- One black and white photograph of Allen Ginsberg outside the Albert Hall, 1965 (copyright John Hopkins).
- Two black and white photographs of Allen Ginsberg, 1965 (copyright John Hopkins).
- Two photographs of Adrian Mitchell at Albert Hall, 1965 (copyright Graham Keen).
- Black and white photograph of George Macbeth, 1965.
- Contact sheet with images of Alexander Trocchi at home (for Peace News) (copyright John Hopkins).
- ICA Bulletin 150, August 1965, with photograph of Albert Hall poets by Hopkins on cover.
- Contact sheet with images of Ginsberg sitting next the Albert Memorial with Shakespeare, 1965 (copyright John Hopkins).
- Black and white photograph of Pete Brown, 1965 (copyright Graham Keen).
- Five contact sheets with images of Albert Hall reading, 1965 (copyright John Hopkins).
- Postcard advertising John 'Hoppy' Hopkins exhibition Taking Liberties, with image of Trocchi on front, September-November 2009.
- Contact sheet with set of publicity stills rephotographed by John Hopkins for use in the poster to advertise the Albert Hall reading. This were done when it was thought that Henry Miller and/or Anais Nin might attend the event. Photographs include Corso and Ferlinghetti.
- Unused ticket for Poets of the World / Poets of Our Time, Albert Hall poetry reading, 11 June 1965.
- Lovebooks Limited headed paper.
- Lovebooks Limited share certificate, signed by John Hopkins, Barry Miles, Michael Henshaw, 6 December 1965.
- Self-portrait black and white photograph of John 'Hoppy' Hopkins, circa 1966.
- Darazt, Lovebooks first print publication, edited by Miles, July 1965.
- Four black and white photographs of Miles’s collages used in Darazt (copyright Graham Keen).
- Trial proof of the cover of Long Hair magazine, Lovebooks second poetry publication, 1965.
- Two What is the college of ‘Pataphysics? flyers, printed on Bible paper, Paris 1965 - This year Miles became a member of the College of ‘Pataphysics’.
- Postcard announcing Shakespeare and Co. in Paris, undated.
- Black and white photograph of Andy Warhol by Stephen Shore, Warhol Factory photographer, with message from Stephen Shore on the back, 1965.
- Letter from Kate Heliczer asking Miles to send material to Paolo Lionni to his new address, 22 November 1965.
- Postcard from Julie Felix, wishing Happy New Year, 31 December 1965.
- Two letters from Geoffrey Thurley about contributions to Long Hair and the reading week at ICA, nd [c1965].
- Postcard from George Dowden, inviting Allen to his wedding, 5 June 1965.
- Postcard from Bob Cobbing, 1965 (poet, publisher, editor).
- Letter from Elizabeth Walther regarding ROT and Concrete Poetry, 2 April 1965.
- Letter of invitation to the Writers Workshop, 24 September 1965.
- Letter from Sylvia Topp regarding orders of Tuli’s work, 20 October 1965.
- Miles’s membership card to the Troubadour coffee house, 1966.
- The Original Noise visual artists book by Larry Lewis, 1965.
- Self Portrait photograph by Stephen Shore with greetings message.
- What is the Provotariat?? flyer, 1965.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003252121
036-003257328
040-003257409 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89160 : The Papers of Barry Miles
Add MS 89160/5 : Barry Miles: 'Reference folders'
Add MS 89160/5/3 : Barry Miles reference folders: '1961 Until the 1965 Albert Hall Poetry Reading' - Hierarchy:
- 032-003252121[0005]/036-003257328[0003]/040-003257409
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89160
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1961
- End Date:
- 2009
- Date Range:
- 1961-2013
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Exhibitions:
- Better Books: Art, Anarchy and Apostasy, Flat Time House, London, SE15 4BW, 29 June 2012 - 29 July 2012
Better Books: Art, Anarchy and Apostasy, ZKM
Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, 3 November 2012 - 6 January 2013 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- The following items were on loan to the Flat Time House London and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, for the exhibition Better Books: Art, Anarchy and Apostasy, June 2012-January 2013
- Names:
- Better Books, bookshop, London, 1947-1966
Bristol Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, fl 1967
Brown, Pete, poet and songwriter, b 1940
Cobbing, Robert Walter, poet and publisher, 1920-2002
Corso, Gregory Nunzio, poet, 1930-2001
Felix, Julie, folk recording artist, b 1938
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Monsanto, poet, artist, and bookseller, 1919-2021
Ginsberg, Irwin Allen, poet and writer, 1926-1997,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109312869,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/108417923
Godwin, Anthony James Wylie, publisher, c 1920-1976
Henshaw, Michael Noel, accountant, 1930-2007
Hopkins, John, photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist; aka Hoppy, 1937-2015
Horovitz, Michael, poet, 1935-2021,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109015901
Latham, John Aubrey Clarendon, artist, 1921-2006
Lovebooks Ltd, publisher of alternative poetry and underground texts, 1965-1970
Macbeth, George Mann, poet and writer, 1932-1992
Mitchell, Adrian, poet, novelist and playwright, 1932-2008
Shore, Stephen, American photographer, b 1947
Sommerville, Ian, electronics technician and computer programmer, 1940-1976
The Four Pennies, pop group, 1962-1966
Traverse Theatre, theatre, Edinburgh, 1963-
Trocchi, Alexander Whitelaw Robertson, novelist, 1925-1984
Warhol, Andy, American artist, 1928-1987