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Poetry and Audience, typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by various authors originally published in 'Poetry and Audence'

Archive Collection: BC MS 20c Poetry and Audience Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Poetry and Audience, typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by various authors originally published in 'Poetry and Audence'

Level: Collection

Classmark: BC MS 20c Poetry and Audience

Date(s): c.1954-1972

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 folder; manuscript and typescript (some photocopy).

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8533

Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature

Description

This collection contains typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by 33 authors, submitted for publication in the Leeds student literary magazine 'Poetry and Audience.' Also included is a small amount of correspondence relating to the magazine's funding and accounts.

Biography or history

The student literary magazine Poetry and Audience was founded by student Ralph Maud in 1953, and is one of the longest running poetry magazines in the United Kingdom. Despite its humble origins as a cyclostyled, one-penny, student journal produced approximately once a week during term time, it quickly developed an international reputation and has published some of the most distinguished poets of the late twentieth century. Many of the earlier contributors were Gregory Fellows in Poetry.

Provenance

The poems were deposited with Leeds University Library by the School of English via Peter Kiddle (at the time, editor of Poetry and Audience) ca. 1972. Correspondence relating to this accession has been retained. Further correspondence was deposited via Professor John Barnard on 26 September 2001.

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