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Material relating to workshops tutored by Nigel Jenkins. Items include printed creative writing textbooks; workshop syllabuses; poetic anthologies produced by workshop students; reports on workshops by Nigel Jenkins and by students; correspondence; notes by Nigel Jenkins; and photocopied photographs.

Material relating to the Welsh Union of Writers. Items include copy of WUW trust deed; WUW newsletters; details of WUW executive members' meetings, AGMs and conferences; list of WUW members; correspondence; tribute material relating to poet Harri Webb (d. 1994); press releases; details relating to PEN conference; details relating to Arts Council-awarded bursaries and list of recipients; rough notes by Nigel Jenkins and others; and press cuttings. Some folios annotated by Nigel Jenkins and others.

Watercolour and chalk painting in the style of rock/cave art.

Printed copy of Nigel Jenkins' poem Warhead, published by Megaton Press in 1981; together with a heavily annotated draft overview of the poem by Nigel Jenkins and a letter, 1981, to Nigel Jenkins from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in response to their receipt of the poem and outlining government views regarding nuclear disarmament.

Material relating to the writing of Nigel Jenkins' Wales: The Lie of the Land, published in 1996 by Gomer Press and featuring photographs by Jeremy Moore. Items comprise printed agreement between Nigel Jenkins and Gomer Press; review; royalty statement; and postcard to Nigel Jenkins in response to the book.

Correspondence, 1989-1990 + n.d., of Nigel Jenkins in his capacity as Literary Editor of Wales on Sunday magazine. Correspondents include the Welsh Academy, artist Jack Jones, poet and writer Duncan Bush, singer, writer and lecturer George Melly and politicians Michael Heseltine, Denis Healey and Michael Foot.

Very rough annotated draft of Nigel Jenkins' as yet untitled play Waldo's Witness (1986), with notes.

Annotated third draft of Nigel Jenkins' play Waldo's Witness (1986).

Annotated draft of Nigel Jenkins' play Waldo's Witness (1986) under its previous title The Peacemakers or The Waldo Effect.

Two annotated photocopied drafts of Nigel Jenkins' play Waldo's Witness (1986), its previous title, Waldo's Cloud, altered to Waldo's Witness.

Papers relating to the compilation and production of Nigel Jenkins' play Waldo's Witness (1986), including production expenses; printed posters and programmes; press releases; miscellaneous material relating to Waldo Williams, including information from interviewees who knew Waldo Williams, press cuttings, etc (notes partly in shorthand); translations into English of some of Waldo Williams' poetry; correspondence, principally with Coracle Theatre Company; printed agreement between Nigel Jenkins and Coracle Theatre Company; biographical details relating to Nigel Jenkins; and reviews.

Play by Adrian Mitchell entitled Uppendown Mooney, inscribed to Nigel Jenkins and Delyth Evans from Adrian Mitchell at front of volume; and play by Tony Conran entitled Branwen: A Revolutionary Tragedy, with profile of the work by Nigel Jenkins.

Papers relating to Nigel Jenkins' period of study at the University of Essex, where he read comparative literature and film studies, and also to later academic studies of Nigel Jenkins. Items include essays; examination papers; lecture notes; bibliographies; and other notes/plans (partly in shorthand). Many folios annotated by Nigel Jenkins. Papers include letter, 1980, to Nigel Jenkins from poet, publisher and critic Sally Roberts Jones.

Material relating to the writing of Nigel Jenkins' Through the Green Door: Travels Among the Khasis, published in 2002 by Penguin Books (India) (initially published by Gomer Press as Gwalia in Khasia in 1995). Items comprise review of Through the Green Door; printed email to Nigel Jenkins attaching article by Morning Star Sumer; and letters to Nigel Jenkins regarding a proposed visit to north-east India.

Material relating to the poetic tour of the United States, England and Ireland undertaken in 1997-1998 by poets Nigel Jenkins, Iwan Llwyd and Menna Elfyn under the title Three for Wales. Items include overviews of tour; tour itineraries, annotated by Nigel Jenkins, and maps; projected tour expenses; poetry, largely Welsh poetry with English translations, many annotated by Nigel Jenkins; letters to Nigel Jenkins from Menna Elfyn and Iwan Llwyd and from tour venue correspondents; article by Nigel Jenkins; notebook of Nigel Jenkins, audience response to readings; printed material relating to arts events; notes, partly in shorthand, by Nigel Jenkins; and press cuttings.

Annotated draft text of Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tony Conran, edited by Nigel Jenkins and published by the Welsh Union of Writers in 1995.

Material relating to the compilation and publication of Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tony Conran, edited by Nigel Jenkins and published by the Welsh Union of Writers in 1995. Items include annotated lists of contributors, their items and expenses; overviews of book contents; annotated draft submissions; biographical details relating to contributors; list of proposed photographs to be included in book; notes on Tony Conran and examples /excerpts from his works; correspondence, including letters from Tony Conran; and rough notes by Nigel Jenkins.

Material relating to the Theatre Writers' Union (TWU), of which Nigel Jenkins was a member. Items include TWU newsletters; details relating to TWU meetings; printed agreement between the TWU and other literary organisations; letter to Nigel Jenkins from the TWU; general information relating to the TWU; and press cutting.

Photocopied text of The Works, the annual magazine of the Welsh Union of Writers, published as an anthology of poetry and prose by the Welsh Union of Writers in 1992 under the editorship of Nigel Jenkins; photocopied circular letter regarding publication; and postcard to Nigel Jenkins relating to the launch of the work. Anthology contributors include Tony Conran, Peter Finch, Janet Dubé, Steve Griffiths, Terry Hetherington and Alison Bielski.

Photocopied preliminary text, including frontispiece, of the 1991 edition of The Works, the annual magazine of the Welsh Union of Writers, edited by Nigel Jenkins; and manuscript notes by Nigel Jenkins, apparently towards a poem on the theme of Llyn y Fan Fach. Photocopied text annotated.