Add MS 89404/6/2

Letters and submissions to Peter Hodgkiss (editor), together with a copy of Not Poetry, no. 2. The material is listed in order of publication within the magazine:

• Not Poetry, no. 2 (Summer 1980). Featuring: Tony Jackson, Paul A. Green, Peter Riley, Michael Haslam, A. P. Zverkov [Robert Hampson], Christopher Beckett, and Ian Breakwell. Front cover by Ged [Jed] Lawson.
• Front cover original artwork.
• Tony Jackson. For the text of the extract from Slut, published by True Fantasies (1981) and distributed by Galloping Dog Press, see Add MS 89404/4/35.
• Paul A. Green, 'Death Layer' (typescript, title-page and 11 numbered sheets, dated Nov 1978). With two typed letters (25 Mar and 10 May 1980) and a typed biography.
• Peter Riley, 'Brief Report from the Shires' (typescript, 3 numbered sheets, dated Nov 1978).
• Michael Haslam, 'Gwydion' (typescript, 9 sheets). With typed letter (2 sheets, 6 Jun [1980]).
• A. P. Zverkov [Robert Hampson], 'Nevsky Prospect' and 'Afterword' (typescript, 7 sheets). With two autograph letters on Alembic Editions letterhead from Hampson (9 May and 10 Jun 1980): 'I wonder whether you would be interested in the enclosed - for the second issue? It's a collaboration between David [Miller] and myself with some help from Ken [Edwards]. Zverkov doesn't actually exist but there is also an 'afterword' that gives some details about him'.
• Christopher Beckett, 'Passage from a Neglected Fiction' (typescript, 11 numbered sheets).
• Ian Breakwell. The text of 'The News' is not present in the file (Breakwell requested return - 'photocopying is expensive'). There is, however, a typed letter (13 Jun 1980) originally enclosing two texts for consideration ('The News' and 'Dear Son') and also enclosing (present in the file) 'for your own personal amusement, copies from a correspondence [1980] with the National Poetry Secretariat (!) informing me that I am Not A Poet'.