Add MS 89404/5/11

(1). Published material as submitted to the editor, together with, in most cases, related letters. Material is listed in order of publication within the magazine:

• John Osborne and Peter Easy, 'Robert Creeley and the Experimental Lyric Tradition'. With three letters [1977] from Osborne.
• Peter Middleton, 'From Geography to Gunslinger: The Poetry of Edward Dorn'. With undated autograph note from Middleton supplying the final paragraph of the article.
• Eric Mottram, 'John Ashbery: "All in the refined, assimilable state"'. With typed letter (25 Mar 1979).
• Paul Kahn. Review of James Koller, Shannon, Who was Lost Before. Together with supplementary article: 'A Note on Other Writing by James Koller'. With three autograph letters (21 Jul, 18 Aug 1977, 20 Jun 1978) and a typed letter (11 Aug 1978).
• Peter Quartermain. Two items: 'Louis Zukofsky (23 January 1904 - 12 May 1978)'; and 'Notes on the American Poem'. With two typed letters (14 Jun and 29 Sep 1978).
• Glyn Pursglove. Review of Dick Higgins, George Herbert's Pattern Poems: In Their Tradition.
• Peter Riley, 'Granite Flowers' (review of Wyndham Lewis, Collected Poems and Plays, ed. Alan Munton).
• Gavin Selerie. Review of George Butterick, A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson. With typed letter (6 Jun 1979).
• Paul Matthews. Review of Owen Davis, Ace of Fools.
• Robert Hampson, 'Brilliant Splinters' (review of David Miller, Appearance & Event). With autograph letter (14 Dec [1978]).
• Paul Hammond and Glen Baxter, 'Conversations with Baxter'. Transcript, including three cartoons by Baxter. With two typed letters from Baxter (19 Apr and 21 May 1979).
• Richard Caddel, 'Gists and Piths Again: F. T. Prince, Charles Reznikoff, Tom Pickard'.
• Douglas Morgan, 'Black Torch: An Appraisal' (review of publication by Barry MacSweeney).
• Tony Baker, 'Black Torch: An Approach' (review of publication by Barry MacSweeney).
• Colim Simms, 'Notes on Herbert Edward Read'.
• Ruth Gruber, 'An Interview/Conversation with Ted Berrigan, George Oppen, and Marvin Cohen'. With typed letter (17 Mar 1977).
• Yann Lovelock, 'Seeing as Awareness: Meditation and Poetics'. With two typed letters (1 Apr 1978, 1 Mar 1979).
• Lawrence Upton, 'A Letter to the Editor' (commenting on Bill Griffiths, 'Peter Clive Fencott' in Poetry Information 18). With autograph and typed letters (both Jan 1979).
• Jim Burns, article on The Outsider (U.S. magazine).
• Little Magazine Index: The Resuscitator. With typed letter from editor John James (24 Aug 1977), an extract from which was published following the 'Index'.
• Eric Mottram, 'Editing Poetry Review'.

(2). Other material in the file:

• William Sherman, 'On Middle Voice', incorporating replies from Eric Mottram, Allen Fisher and John Osborne. Together with a photocopy of Sherman, 'Charles Olson (1910-1970): An Appreciation' (publication not indicated). With three typed letters from Sherman (all Oct 1978). In the third letter, Sherman is 'delighted' that Hodgkiss has accepted the article for publication, although it was not to appear in Poetry Information. 'On Middle Voice' was subsequently published by Ken Edwards in Reality Studios, Vol 5 (1983), pp. 41-4.
• Clayton Eshleman, 'The Lorca Working' (an essay, in typescript, on Jack Spicer). The essay had been already published in boundary 2, vol. 6, no. 1 (Autumn 1977), pp. 31-50.
• Malcolm Parr. Review (in autograph) of three books in translation, by Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Fernando Pessoa.
• Jeff Nuttall. Cutting of review article from The Guardian (11 Aug 1979), considering publications by Bill Griffiths, Geraldine Monk, Paul Evans, Elaine Randell, and Windows magazine (East Sussex College of Higher Education).
• Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. Folded programme of events, 8 June - 31 July [1979]. Readings by Kenneth Koch and Anne Waldman (13 Jun) and by John Heath-Stubbs and Edwin Morgan (14 Jun).