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Jon Glover Archive

Archive Collection: BC MS 20c Glover

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Jon Glover Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: BC MS 20c Glover

Creator(s): Glover, Jon()

Date(s): 1961-1972

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 box

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8639

Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature

Description

This collection contains items relating to the poet Jon Glover, and in particular his time as a student at Leeds University. It includes poem and short story drafts, correspondence, and administrative papers relating to the student arts magazine Sixty-One (edited by Glover ca. 1964-1965); and items relating to the 1966 Leeds Student Arts Festival, of which Glover was secretary/organiser.


Comprises: Material relating to "61" or intended for publication in "61", including 15 drafts of poems, short stories and reviews in manuscript, including items by Martin H. Taylor, Bruno Bobak, Jan Adams, Colin Speakman, M. A. Gonzalez, A. J. Sanford, Granville Williams, R. E. Sowden, S. Bentley; 35 typescripts of poems, short stories and a letter to the editor, including items by Lezli Weintrobe, Terry Brindley, Ruth Gleave, M.A. Gonzalex, Marjorie Battcock, Jeff, A. R. Chardwick, Les Arnold, B. Maude, Douglas Sandle, Peter Redgrove and Andrew F. Tudor, with annotations in manuscript; miscellaneous items of correspondence, 3 in manuscript, 10 typed (not for publication); miscellaneous material including accounts and invoices; 11 stapled issues of "61", 1963-66, incomplete; an issue of "Ikon", vol. 1, no. 4, March 1966 (Arts Festival edition); 1 bound notebook with press cuttings relating to the Leeds Student Arts Festival 1966, (8 ff., rest blank); and a collection of magazines, largely
published by student societies at Leeds University in the 1960s.

Biography or history

The poet and academic, Jon Glover, edited "61", a student magazine concerned with the arts, while a postgraduate student at the University of Leeds. He was also involved with "Ikon", an arts magazine published by Leeds University Union, and was secretary of the Leeds Student Arts Festival in 1966.

Provenance

This collection was a gift from Jon Glover in May 2005.

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Access to this part of the collection is protected under the Data Protection Act. You will need to complete a data protection access form and return it to Special Collections for review by staff before access can be granted

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

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Jon Glover

Profile: Jon Glover

A biography of Jon Glover a Poet at the University of Leeds. Involved with Sixty-One and Ikon poetry magazines.

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