Scope and Contents Letters, printouts of emails, cards, and postcards sent to Anne Stevenson from friends, family, business associates, literary peers, companies, charities, educational institutions, and people who admired her work. Some letters are accompanied by copies of poems written by the correspondents. Also present are contracts, financial statements, sales invoices and other items that Stevenson received through the post.This series is composed of 37 boxes and 783 identified correspondents,...

Scope and Contents Typescript and word-processed drafts of essays, articles and notes written by Anne Stevenson, which were published in or submitted to various outlets. Such pieces cover a variety of topics, including, but not limited to: the state of poetry as an artform, the craft of writing, reading and listening to poetry; and writings on fellow poets that Stevenson was influenced by, admired or fascinated her.Some drafts feature annotations and corrections in pencil or ink, and they are...

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A sheet of A4 paper holding a typed draft of a script written by Anne Stevenson, produced as part of an unidentified public event in Oxford, in which Stevenson read or intended to read poems by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Scupham. The contents of the script introduces the two poets, who are due to address the audience prior to Stevenson's reading. There are annotations in her hand.

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Most of the individual correspondents in items 1-31 are poets, translators, and illustrators. Some items include typescripts of poems.

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[Boxes 1-4]: unpublished poems by Peter Scupham; [Boxes 5-9]: poetry notebooks; speeches delivered in Emmanuel College debates, c. 1955.

Scope and Contents Writings produced by Anne Stevenson that fall outside of her poetry, prose works, critical studies, radio scripts, opera libretti, translations, essays, reviews and other output covered in the 16 series preceding this one. The following types of items are present in this series, but are not limited to: non-poetry writings produced by Stevenson during her elementary/primary school years; introductions, prefaces and forewords for non-Stevenson publications; blurbs [a short description for a...

Scope and Contents [Boxes 1-4]: Correspondence between Peter Scupham and Carola Braunholtz; school reports of Peter Scupham; unpublished poems by Peter Scupham; letters and poems sent to Peter Scupham by John Hadwen; letters from Peter Scupham to John Hadwen; settings by John Hopkins of poems by Peter Scupham; interviews and comments on poems by Scupham, by Anthony Glover; other early (1950s) letters to Peter Scupham from National Servicemen; correspondence respecting Scupham's poems 'A masculine pastoral';...

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[Boxes 1-4]: unpublished poems by Peter Scupham; [Boxes 5-9]: poetry notebooks; speeches delivered in Emmanuel College debates, c. 1955.

Scope and Contents Typescript and word-processed drafts of reviews by Anne Stevenson on the works of other poets and authors, which were published in or submitted to various outlets. Some drafts feature annotations and corrections in pencil or ink, and they are occasionally accompanied by other material.This sub-series is composed of 82 items/files, held in four boxes. The reviews are listed below in order of either the title of the reviewed publication, the title of the first publication when...

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[Boxes 1-4]: unpublished poems by Peter Scupham; [Boxes 5-9]: poetry notebooks; speeches delivered in Emmanuel College debates, c. 1955.

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Two files holding correspondence, along with poetry typescripts and related items, connected to Anne Stevenson's editorship of the 1991 publication, The Poetry Book Society Anthology 2. The majority of the correspondence are addressed to Stevenson, and most have been sent from those featured in the anthology.