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Photocopied and published press reviews of Gwyneth Lewis's volume of poetry entitled Zero Gravity, with related publicity material including lists of contacts for reviews and the launch, copies of published poems by other poets, and copies and offprints of published articles about female poets and Welsh poets; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, publishers, agents, friends and the BBC concerning Zero Gravity (originally entitled Coconut Postcards), and in particular publication, the poems, proofs, contractual matters, publicity, distribution, royalties, reviews, broadcasts and performances, as well as other literary and personal business; together with a typescript transcript of a radio interview with Les Murray about Gwyneth Lewis’s work, and a contract and a catalogue from Bloodaxe Books; and related notes, photographs and press cuttings.

Typescript drafts and publisher’s proofs, with manuscript annotations by Gwyneth Lewis, of Two in a Boat, together with notes, press cuttings, leaflets, booklets and letters accumulated in the process of writing the book, mostly comprising research materials relating to sailing, navigation, sailors, seafaring in history and literature with particular reference to the Iberian peninsula, ‘Jameeleh’ and the Nicholson 35 class, the type of cancer suffered by Leighton Denver Davies, the Portuguese language, and ports in Portugal, Spain and Wales, as well as correspondence on these themes and the production of the book between Gwyneth Lewis, publishers, other writers, doctors, friends, and (with Leighton Denver Davies) yacht insurers and surveyors, and also lists of potential recipients of review copies, invitations to the book launch, and draft copies and press cuttings of reviews.

Press cuttings, photocopies of articles, booklets, leaflets and notes accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis during her research for Two in a Boat, all relating to nautical and maritime matters except for some material from the John F. Kennedy Space Center, and arranged by her into folders labelled 'Ports', 'Piracy', 'Cardiff', 'Boats + ships', 'Shipwrecks + difficulties' and 'Cruising'.

Ephemera accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis relating to her travels in the United States, Spain, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia, Italy, Turkey and Wales, including a typescript schedule for a film shoot in Cambridge involving her, as well as maps, postcards, hotel receipts, travel tickets and bookings, entrance tickets and guidebooks for tourist attractions, a property prospectus, and related leaflets.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s work as a translator, including: manuscript notes by her for a talk on translation between Welsh and English at a conference at Jesus College, Oxford, with an associated event programme; a letter to her from Martin Orwin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, concerning the translation of poetry from Somali into English, with copies of examples; printed examples of poetry translated from English into German; and related notes, offprints and photocopies of articles.

Event programmes and cuttings of press reviews (some of them sent to Gwyneth Lewis) relating to The Most Beautiful Man from the Sea, an opera for which Gwyneth Lewis composed the libretto having been inspired by a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, and which was performed by Welsh National Opera and community groups at venues throughout Wales including the Millennium Centre, Cardiff.

Manuscript notes and typescript drafts with manuscript annotations compiled by Gwyneth Lewis during the composition of 'The Meat Tree', a futuristic re-telling of the fourth branch of the Mabinogi, together with related material including correspondence (with writers, academics and publishers), copies of articles, press cuttings and photographs.

Annotated typescript and manuscript drafts of poems written by Gwyneth Lewis for publication in journals and in her collections published as Sparrow Tree, A Hospital Odyssey, Zero Gravity and Parables and Faxes, and also for broadcast on BBC Radio, some of them under more than one working title, including ‘A Hospital Odyssey’, ‘Aeolian Harp’, ‘Alternative Island’, ‘Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau, Abertawe’, ‘Apology to Peter Porter’, ‘Appointment’, ‘Aran’, ‘Arthur’s Talk with the Eagle’, ‘As Long as you Want / Improvisations on Sappho’, ‘Basic Knitting’, ‘Birder’, ‘Blue Tit / Titmouse / Tit’, ‘Bow Tie / Bowtie’, ‘Bricks in Bars’, ‘Broken Plates’, ‘Broken Star’, ‘Cân yn y Cywair Lleddf’, ‘Crazy Quilt’, ‘Crosses and Losses’, ‘Crosses’, ‘Diagonal Triangles’, ‘Double Wedding Ring’, ‘Elegy for Shambo’, ‘Epistle to C P Snow’, ‘Experimental Knitting / Applied Mathematics’, ‘Field Guide to Dementia’, ‘Finches / What finches say ad nauseam’, ‘Fractals’, ‘Glas’, ‘Gull’, ‘Heroine’, ‘Hike’, ‘Homecoming’, ‘Horizon with People’, ‘Hosiery’, ‘How to knit a poem’, ‘Humming Bird Project / Project Joy’, ‘Hypnosis Knitting’, ‘Imaginary Walks in Istanbul’, ‘Inheritance’, ‘Late Starter’, ‘Lattice’, ‘Log Cabin’ / ‘Barn Raising Variation (Crib quilt)’, ‘Love Poem’, ‘Lundy’, ‘Map’, ‘Memorial’, ‘Murmuration’, ‘My Wales’, ‘Nightingale / Outside Broadcast (for Mark Cocker)’, ‘Nine Patch’, ‘No design’, ‘No Sparrow Ode’, ‘No Sparrow’, ‘Nuclear Family’, ‘Ocean Waves (for AJ)’, ‘Old Maid’s Puzzle’, ‘One and a Half Square Miles’, ‘Our Body’, ‘Pattern Pornography’, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Pine Trees (Crib Quilt)’, ‘Praise birds’, ‘Prayer for Horizon’, ‘Prologue from Zero Gravity’, ‘Quantum Island’, ‘Quilting for Childless Women’, ‘Railroad Crossing’, ‘Remission Flamenco’, ‘Remission Sevillanas’, ‘Reply to the Haka’, ‘Riddle: Definition of a Harp’, ‘Roman Strip[e] Variation (Crib quilt)’, ‘Roman Stripe’, ‘Sarcophagus / Mausoleum’, ‘Sea Virus’, ‘Secret Report from the Pharmaceutical Lab’, ‘Silk Knitting’, ‘Sliver’, ‘Small Brown Job’, ‘Sol and Nemesis / Nemesis (for Tsevi Mazeh)’, ‘Some common Invaders’, ‘Spectrum’, ‘Speculation / Sparrows / Fall of a Sparrow’, ‘Splinter / Splinters / Zeal’, ‘Stonechat (for Richard Scorer, psychiatrist)’, ‘Sunken Garden at Radcliffe / Sunken Garden’, ‘Taxonomy’, ‘Tension Square’, ‘The Family Knitting Book’, ‘The Feeder (In memory of Megan Tanner / Elegy for an Aunt)’, ‘The Sparrow Tree / What Sparrows Might Mean’, ‘The Symbolism of Ancient Sweaters’, ‘Thirty-Six Patch Variation (Crib quilt)’, ‘Trees of California’, ‘Triangles’, ‘Tumbling Blocks’, ‘Unnamed Pattern (Crib quilt)’, ‘Voice / Llais’, ‘Warning’, ‘What Do Birds Say?’, ‘What the red kite saw’, ‘Y pwynt’, ‘Zebra’ and others, with related notes. Also included are: manuscript copies of an untitled poetry / drama / musical script by Gwyneth Lewis about dolphins in Cardigan Bay; notes and literary quotations collected by her for ‘A Hospital Odyssey’, and also on quilt vocabulary; a photocopy of an article by her (‘Letter to the poet I might I might have been’); copies of emails to her concerning social and literary matters, notably the possible publication of parts of ‘A Hospital Odyssey’ in the Paris Review; typescript copies of poems by members of the Girton Poetry Group; and a family postcard.

School, Urdd and college work by Gwyneth Lewis on literary themes, including folders, exercise books and notebooks containing manuscript and typescript poems, essays, exercises, projects and notes relating to her own compositions, which were mostly produced as school work or for competitions, as well as Welsh and English literature more generally, together with eisteddfod entry forms and adjudications, press cuttings, a few notes on other school subjects, and some poetry composed by Marian Lewis.

School projects by Gwyneth Lewis, including a folder of her poetry in typescript, as well as a folder, photographs, press cuttings and an audio tape relating to a project on Rhydwen Williams, together with folders and scrapbooks concerning other topics relating to a variety of school subjects.

Exercise books and folders containing notes and essays by Gwyneth Lewis on a number of academic subjects including Welsh, English, Music and others, compiled for school and eisteddfod work, as well as diaries compiled by her during an eisteddfod and a trip to Paris, printed notes, and a copy of the British Ballet Organization Bulletin.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s D.Phil. entitled ‘Eighteenth-century literary forgeries with special reference to the work of Iolo Morganwg’ (submitted to the University of Oxford), comprising manuscript and photocopied drafts, revisions, bibliographic notes, abstracts, essays and extensive notes by her on primary and secondary sources and academic debates relating to literary figures including Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), Thomas Chatterton, William Henry Ireland, James Macpherson, Thomas Percy and others, with photocopies of related articles and bibliographies, associated press cuttings, an abstract and part of an annotated typescript draft of a Ph.D. thesis by Paul Timothy Baines entitled 'Authenticity and forgery in eighteenth-century Britain' (submitted to the University of Bristol), a letter from Gwyneth Lewis's supervisor concerning the examiners’ report on her thesis, letters from academics concerning her research, manuscript essays on related topics and a typescript dissertation on George Eliot written by Gwyneth Lewis at Cambridge for her first degree in English literature, Oxford and Cambridge University literature concerning the submission of theses, and library letters and forms concerning reading rooms and Gwyneth Lewis's book loans.

Notes by Gwyneth Lewis relating to her work on health, illness, medicine and space science, together with a printout of email correspondence between her and Gillie Bolton concerning the metaphysics of healing, and related leaflets, internet printouts, newsletters, press cuttings and postcards.

Materials collected by Gwyneth Lewis in the course of her research for 'A Hospital Odyssey' and other work, especially workshops and projects, including press cuttings, copies of academic articles and presentations, papers relating to a Royal Society of Medicine symposium and research visits to the University Hospital of Wales, leaflets, booklets, NHS forms, and notes relating to a variety of subjects including cancer, mental illness, cell biology, genes, germs and diseases, medicine, hygiene, the human brain, hearing, asthma, health and wellbeing, hospitals and healthcare, the NHS, Homer’s Odyssey, personal relationships, social outcasts, gangs, murder, deception, virtual reality, relationships between humans and nature, dogs and other animals, space, the First World War, writers and writing, art, circus and fashion.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s composition of the librettos ‘Redflight Barcud’ and ‘Dolffin’ as part of an operatic trilogy entitled ‘Land, Sea, Sky’ that was performed by Welsh National Opera and primary school children with the intention of engaging children with environmental issues, comprising: a publisher’s proof of Gwyneth Lewis’s score for ‘Barcud’ (later re-named ‘Redflight Barcud’), with related material including a project prospectus, design notes, event programmes and promotional literature; and material relating to ‘Dolffin’, including event programmes, a leaflet and press cuttings.

Papers relating to BBC radio and television talks, performances and interviews featuring Gwyneth Lewis, including ‘Voyage to Lundy’, ‘Sailing without a boat’, 'Cerddi Cilycwm', ‘The stone that moved’, ‘Poetry Please’ and ‘Great lives - Emily Dickinson’, comprising typescript and manuscript scripts with annotations by Gwyneth Lewis and BBC staff; together with correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and BBC staff concerning 'Cerddi Cilycwm', ‘The Verb’ and a proposed semi-dramatisation of ‘A Hospital Odyssey’; as well as an award certificate for Gwyneth Lewis’s ‘In search of the Gododdin’ (BBC Wales) from Fèis nam Meadhanan Ceilteach (Celtic Media Festival) in the Hebrides; and notes and press cuttings relating to scripts, recording, broadcasts, accommodation and expenses.

Papers relating to publications by Gwyneth Lewis and her reviews of the published work of other poets, including: a copy of a publication agreement between her and Harvard Review concerning her poem ‘Sunken Garden’; a letter to her from literary agents concerning the agreement between her and Poetry Wales Press relating to The Meat Tree; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, agents and the editor concerning the publication of an Italian anthology of her work; a copy of her poem ‘Pluck’, commissioned by the Prince of Wales; copies of a typescript draft foreword by Gwyneth Lewis, with manuscript annotations and related notes, for Doctor Marigold's prescriptions, an edition of the work of Charles Dickens; a photocopy of PN Review proofs of ‘Links: A knot of poems’ by Gwyneth Lewis; a copy of PN Review with poems from Sparrow Tree; offprints of review articles from Taliesin by Gwyneth Lewis and T. James Jones relating to the poetry of Menna Elfyn; and a review copy of Sound Archive by Nerys Williams with manuscript notes by Gwyneth Lewis.

Cuttings collected by Gwyneth Lewis from the British, American and Welsh press relating to a wide range of artistic, intellectual, scientific, political and cultural matters, including her own career and the activities of family members.

Photographs featuring and taken by Gwyneth Lewis reflecting her personal and professional activities, notably in the United States, Wales and Spain, including literary events, award ceremonies, tourism, and social and family events.

Ephemera accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis relating to her personal and family life, including orders of service for weddings and funerals (notably her own wedding), an inventory of her flat at [Girton], identity cards (for universities, libraries, transport, swimming baths and the BBC), membership cards for Oxbridge societies, examination literature, records of medical appointments and an eye prescription, an international driving permit and papers relating to speed awareness, tickets for transport and events, event programmes, domestic receipts, a letter from a utility provider, gym records, a diary kept by her sister Marian as a child, and a personalised calendar featuring family members, together with related notes, photographs, press cuttings, booklets, leaflets, badges, and drawings by adults and children.