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Date(s)
- [2012x2021] (Creation)
Level of description
Ffeil / File
Extent and medium
1 small box (0.009 m³)
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Draft and fair-copied individual loose poems by Tony Curtis, with amendments in Curtis's hand.
Poems titled 'Claude and Chou Chou at Le Moulleau, 1916', 'The Mayor of Llansteffan' and 'Andrew Wyeth's "Snow Hill"' include attached related material (for material related to 'Andrew Wyeth's "Snow Hill"', see April 2018 papers under headings From the Fortunate Isles (Seren Books, 2016) and Andrew Wyeth exhibition).
Some poems accompanied by small-scale copies of photographs.
Together with rough manuscript limericks in Tony Curtis's hand (kept at rear of sequence of poems).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Poems arranged in alphabetical order of title, disregarding prefix 'The'. Poem titled 'The XXIInd Biennale' listed under 'T'. Untitled poem kept at rear of sequence.
More substantial material kept in envelopes marked with title of poem.
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Poem titled 'Claude and Chou Chou at Le Moulleau, 1916': contains some French; attached article has French title.
Poem titled 'The Song Prize': one short stanza in French.
Poem titled 'Bywyd': in Welsh. (Direction (in English) above the poem most likely relates to a proposed photographic copy to accompany the poem: see other poems with small-scale copies of photographs.)
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Note
Poem titled 'Barry Island': For stone carver Nia Bennett see, for example: https://studiocennen.com/collections/nia-bennett-stone-carver-cowbridge
Poem titled 'Nature to Nature': For sculptor David Nash see, for example: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/david-nash-ra
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Name access points
- Bennett, Nia (Subject)
- Nash, David, 1945- (Subject)