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Scope and Contents Essays, poetry and short stories written by mineworkers for the Arthur Markham Memorial Prize administered by the University of Sheffield, submitted during the period 1932 - 1993. Contains essays that won the prize and those that were unsuccessful. Essays give insight into working in and for the mines and the home life of miners and their families. This archive contains essays for nearly all the years the prize was awarded. The 70 essays in this collection make up a small number...

Scope and Contents Collection consisting of recordings of interviews, plays, poetry and other works relating to Japan, made by Professor Geoffrey Bownas between 1958 and 1980. They include interviews with Kishida Kyoko, Abe Kōbō and Nakamura Utaemon about the Japanese author Mishima Yukio, Bownas’s translation of Naoya Uchimura’s play Marathon, and Japanese poetry. Some were broadcast on the BBC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.For further details of this collection please see the box list in the...

Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence written to Catharine DeFrance Carver (1921-1997), publisher´s editor, mostly during the period 1991 to 1997 (where dated).The collection consists mostly of correspondence in the form of letters, postcards, etc. sent to Catharine Carver by her friends and colleagues, who included writers and poets such as Virginia Crosby, Desmond Graham, Jon Stallworthy, Michael Millgate and Richard Hoggart, as well as fellow editors and others from the publishing...

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A collection of documents relating to the dialect poetry of Catherine A. (Cathy) Lovett.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.

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A developing collection of artists’ books, pamphlets and original artwork created by Ian Tyson for his press, ed.it. This archive also contains mock-ups and experimental versions of the finished works.

Scope and Contents Material relating to Sir William Empson (1906-1984), poet, academic and critic and his wife, Hetta, Lady Empson (1915-1996), sculptor, political activist and socialite. The first part of the collection comprises papers (mainly letters) from William and Hetta Empson, to each other and to others, notably Walter Brown and David Jones. They include both domestic matters and also descriptions of world events such as their experiences in China during the Communist Revolution, and Hetta´s work in...

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The collection consists of documents relating to Fighting Cock Press and Pennine Poets, and includes proofs of many poems, correspondence, grant applications, log books, photographs, illustrations and cover art. There is also a collection of books published by Fighting Cock Press, and of issues of Pennine Platform, the journal of Pennine Poets.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents The Gordon Brotherston Papers comprise circa 1000 pages of documentary materials. The vast majority of this material is original correspondence (a mixture of typescript and handwritten), which has never been available for research. The Papers represent, therefore, a previously unknown yet highly significant aspect of post-war small press poetry culture—a developing speciality of Sheffield’s Special Collections due to the Small Press Poetry Collection—particularly focused around international...

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The collection consist of issues of roughly 100 “little magazines”, along with 15 associated monographs.

For further details of this collection please see the listings in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents Papers of, and relating to, James Montgomery (1771-1854), Sheffield journalist and poet.The collection includes reminiscences of Montgomery, poems and manuscripts by him, printed works and illustrations. Also included is a scrapbook entitled “Negro’s album of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Society, 1828”, and material by and about Montgomery assembled by Mary Anne Rawson (née Read).For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents...

Scope and Contents The collection comprises the surviving personal and working papers, manuscripts and associated correspondence relating to the life and work of Brian Robert Morris, university teacher and professor of English Literature, University Principal, writer, broadcaster and public figure through his membership/chairmanship of many public and private cultural bodies and his appointment to the House of Lords.The papers consist of :Material collected from BRM´s home in Foolow...

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The papers of Emeritus Professor Frank Pierce (1915-1999), who held the chair of Spanish (Hispanic Studies) at the University of Sheffield from 1953 until 1980. The collection mainly relates to his work on Spanish literature, especially epic poetry.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents A developing collection of books published by private presses worldwide dating from the late nineteenth century to the present day.The original legacy core collection purchased in the mid-twentieth century comprises works of collaboration between important contemporaneous artists, writers and poets, as well as classic works by canonised figures such as Shakespeare and Goethe reinterpreted by nineteenth and twentieth century artists, all enabled and published by innovative small...

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A collection of the published texts of the poet Peter Redgrove, works of criticism, a selection of books from Redgrove’s personal library, and some of the work of his partner and co-author Penelope Shuttle. The collection is intended to complement and support the Redgrove Papers.

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Scope and Contents Papers of the poet Peter Redgrove, including working notebooks and correspondence. The bulk of the collection consists of Redgrove's correspondence (some 10,500 letters) during the period 1970 to 1989, including correspondence with many significant figures in the world of contemporary literature, together with his complete working papers recording the composition of his work during this period, drafts of several literary works, and copies of interviews and reviews.A small...

Scope and Contents A developing collection of small press poetry publications from over a hundred non-mainstream international presses, with a particular focus on the avant-garde.The collection includes substantial holdings of several individual British presses including Barque Press, Crater Press, Face Press, West House Books, and Gargoyle Editions. It also includes the full output of the Canadian presses Weed/Flower and Seripress, as well as a large collection of books and ephemera from the San...

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A developing collection of artist and writer Ian Tyson’s works from his own private press.

Scope and Contents A collection of artist and writer Ian Tyson’s pre-Tetrad Press work including lithographs, posters, screen prints, books and ephemera. This collection represents a fifty-year friendship between two master printers (e.g., the numerous personal inscriptions, the dedications, the hand-made birthday and New Year cards). The donation also includes transitional work that is the direct precursor of Tetrad. Works such as 'Six extracts from the Zenrinkushu' (1966) are an advancement...

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This is a collection of artists’ books from the book artist and printer Ken Campbell. Detailed descriptions of, and many images from each of Campbell’s books, can be found on the artist's website

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Papers from the life and works of miner Tom Hague (1915-1998), also known as Totley Tom. The majority of the papers date from the 1970s to the 1990s, but also includes later recordings of interviews with family members.