Mulford, Wendy, b 1941 (poet)
Person
Biography
Born Wales, 1941. Educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She established and ran the poetry press, Street Editions, in Cambridge between 1972 and 1993, publishing the works of contemporary British poets including John James, J.H. Prynne and John Wilkinson. The press merged with Reality Studios in 1993 to form Reality Street. Her own published works include: 'No Fee' (with Denise Riley, 1979); 'Some Poems 1968-1978' (with Denise Riley, 1982); 'The Bay of Naples' (1992); 'The East Anglia Sequence: Norfolk 1984 – Suffolk 1994' (1998); 'The Land Between' (2009).
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Poems and correspondence from the library of Julia Ball, 1988-2012 and undated
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10496/7
Scope and Contents
Comprises: Wendy Mulford, ‘The Bay of Naples’, collection of poems, subtitled ‘for Howard Hodgkin / After the Exhibition ‘Forty Paintings 1973-1984’ / The Whitechapel Gallery 1985’ and dated ‘Cambridge – Sennen / 1986-1988’, 28 loose A4 folios, typescript with manuscript amendments, photocopied (apparently incomplete: lacking the poem ‘None but the brave deserves the fair’ called for on the contents page), with a folded slip bearing a reproduction of Hodgkin’s painting ‘After Corot’;...
Dates:
1988-2012 and undated
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Wendy Mulford, 21 Feb. 1977-14 June 1994
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10087/6/42
Scope and Contents
Comprises 7 letters, 4 postcards and 1 notelet from Mulford to Riley. Also includes:- a sheet with four poems in Mulford's hand: 'After Corot'; 'Anecdotes'; 'Height first, in inches' and 'Talking about art';- 1 photographic print;- 'New Year Greetings', printed poem from the Chinese Postcard Sequence (Dec. 2001), annotated by Mulford;- letter to Mulford from Allen Fisher, 17 Apr. 1977; letter to Mulford from Denise Riley, c. 1991- John James and Wendy Mulford,...
Dates:
21 Feb. 1977-14 June 1994
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