Jeni Couzyn papers, 1969-1971

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

Description

Summary

These papers are the correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, and publicity for poetry readings at the Camden Festivals of 1969 and 1970. There is also the book-manuscript and proofs for TWELVE TO TWELVE (London, Poets' Trust, 1970), twelve poems which were commissioned for the 1970 festival. The correspondents include Charles Causley, C. Day Lewis, Ted Hughes, Christopher Logue, Hugh MacDiarmid, Gary Snyder, and Louis Zukofsky.

Cataloged Materials and Arranged Correspondence: Baybars, Tanar; Beiles, Sinclair; Booth, Martin; Brunner, John; Gausley, Charles; Clark, Thomas A.; Cutler, Ivor; Day-Lewis, Cecil; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Hamburger, Michael; Harwood, Lee; Heaney, Seamus; Henri, Adrian; Hidden, Norman; Hughes, Ted; Jackson, Alan; Logue, Christopher; Lichfield, Boyd K.; Lucie-Smith, Edward; MacBeth, George; MacDiarmid, Hugh; McGough, Roger; Mailer, Norman; Mitchell, Adrian; Nuttall, Jeff; Okai, John; Pickard, Tom; Plomer, William; Redgrove, Peter; Silkin, Jon; Smith, Stevie; Snyder, Gary; Tribe, David; Zukofsky, Louis

Arranged: Camden Festival 1969: Correspondence; Memoranda, lists, etc.; Printed materials Camden Festival 1970: Correspondence (misc.); Memoranda, lists, bills, etc; Printed materials Twelve to twelve. Mss. (xerox) Twelve to twelve. Page proofs

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jeni Couzyn papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession number--M-59.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.

PDF finding aid deemed duplicative, fall 2018.

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Poetry Marathon, May 1969, and Poetry D-Day, May 1970, were organized by Jeni Couzyn for the London Poetry Secretariat and the Poets' Trust.