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Total number of records: 2885

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Poetry2885
Brotherton Collection2796
English Literature2792

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)294
correspondence258
universities and colleges united120
poetry readings united states117
poets as teachers90
books reviews87
proofs (printing)75
authors and publishers61
lectures and lecturing england leeds56
little magazines42

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)501
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)437
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)213
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn213
Crossley-Holland, Kevin165
Brown, Wayne69
Kirkup, James (1918-2009)27
Various16
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)16
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)14

Archive Collection

Poetry Room, University of Leeds School of English, correspondence and papers

University of Leeds. School of English

1950-1990

This collection comprises papers and audio recordings relating to the Poetry Room, formerly part of the School of English at the University of Leeds. It incorporates correspondence and other papers re...

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Wayne Brown Archive

Brown, Wayne

1911-1980

Comprises: manuscript and typescript drafts of poems collected in Brown's first poetry collection, On the Coast (1972); manucript and typescript drafts of miscellaneous poems by Brown dating to the 19...

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Bonamy Dobrée Archive

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

1912-1973

Comprises: (a) 19 boxes of Bonamy Dobrée's autograph manuscript correspondence arranged A-Z by the names of the correspondents and dated between 1912 and 1973, including a large number of letters fro...

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Geoffrey Hill Archive

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1940s-2016

This collection represents the archives of the poet Geoffrey Hill. The archive comprises items relating to Hill's poetry from the late 1940s to 2016, in addition to items relating to his critical work...

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William Price Turner, autograph manuscript drafts for the poem 'Train of thought' with a signed typescript of the final version and some correspondence

William P. Turner

c.1962-1964

Comprises: Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts for Turner's poem 'Train of thought', two of which are entitled 'Dark circles', with many manuscript revisions to the text, together with his sign...

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Peter Redgrove Archive

Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)

1961 - 13 Dec 1987

This collection comprises autograph manuscript notebooks, scrapbooks and other literary papers of the poet Peter Redgrove. Includes proofs and example of published works, papers relating to a student ...

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Poetry and Audience - 6th November, 1953
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Poetry and Audience, typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by various authors originally published in 'Poetry and Audence'

c.1954-1972

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 amoun...

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Vernon Scannell, literary papers together with an autograph letter

Scannell, Vernon (1922-2007)

1962-1967

Comprises: Literary papers of Vernon Scannell dated 1963-1966, including autograph manuscripts and revised typescripts of eight poems, together with a press cutting from the Sunday Times for 29 Januar...

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David Wright, autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, with a letter to Paul Potts

Wright, David (1920-1994)

c.1947-1983

This collection comprises autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of seven poems by David Wright.

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Jon Glover Archive

Glover, Jon

1961-1972

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...

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Poetry Collections and Published Poems

Brown, Wayne

1964-1971

This subfonds contains items relating to Wayne Brown's poetry collection 'On the Coast,' published in 1972. It includes both drafts of poems included in the collection, and drafts of poems written aro...

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Sixty-One: A Magazine of the Arts

Glover, Jon

c.1961-1966

This subfonds contains material relating to the student magazine 'Sixty-One: A Magazine of the Arts.' The magazine was edited by Glover from ca. 1964-1965, and he was involved as a member of editorial...

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