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Postcards and letters primarily addressed to Greg Hill, 1952; 1980-2010 (with gaps), mainly relating to the publication of poetry and reviews in books and journals including Poetry Wales, Planet, Agenda, New Welsh Review, Scintilla, PN Review, The Anglo-Welsh Review, Materion Dwyieithog/Bilingual Matters, and Friends’ Quarterly, and the anthologies The Dancing Pilgrimage of Water: Writings on Welsh Rivers, Lakes, and Reservoirs (2010), and Birdsong (2002); Greg Hill’s acceptance of the Manchester Cathedral Religious Poetry Competition 2001; and membership of The Welsh Academy/Yr Academi Gymreig (1988). Includes letters from Michael Farley (1); Jeremy Hooker (1); Robert Minhinnick (4); John Davies (1); John Barnie (2); Dewi Roberts (2); Charles Leftwich (1); Cary Archard (1); Richard Poole (2); Zoë Skoulding (2); Michael Schmidt (1); Robin Reeves (2); Anne Cluysenaar (3); Gwyneth Evans (1); Greg Hill (1); Mick Felton (1); Canon Albert Radcliffe (1); David Blamires (1); Ursula Freeman (1); William Cookson (1); Glenda Beagan (2), including a typescript copy of her poem ‘Bi-Lingual’ (1992); David Annwn (3); Raymond Garlick (1), including a copy of the first edition of the journal Dock Leaves (1952); Mike Jenkins (1); Tony Conran (1); and Kevin Thomas (1). The file also includes a typescript copy of ‘The Guesthouse’ by Steve Griffiths ([?1980x1995]); and a copy of Welsh Union of Writers News, Winter 1983/84.

Papers relating to the journal Materion Dwyieithog/Bilingual Matters, [?1990]-1992; 2002, consisting of correspondence discussing items to be featured and typescript copies of material intended for inclusion. The correspondence (1990-1992; 2002) includes letters from Tony Conran (4); Greg Hill (unsigned) (1); Michael Schmidt (1); Steve Short (1); Harri Pritchard Jones (1); M. Wynn Thomas (1); Joseph Clancy (2); Raymond Garlick (1); Bobi Jones (1); Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan to Hywel Ifans (1); and Huw Jones (1). The correspondence is accompanied by typescript and manuscript copies, ([?1990]-[?1992]), of material intended for publication, including an interview with Tony Conran; part of a translation of Y Gododdin by Steve Short; an interview with Joseph Clancy; copies of Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan’s essay ‘Fascinating, Infuriating and Miraculous: Welsh-Language Publishing in 1991’; two copies of ‘Dwyieithrwydd a Llenyddiaeth’ by Heather Williams; ‘Darganfod Hanes Cymru’ by Geraint H. Jenkins, ([?1992]); copies of poems translated by Joseph Clancy from the original Welsh by Bobi Jones, including ‘Portrait of an Immigrant’, ‘A Wren in Aberystwyth Cemetery’; ‘The Other Grandmother’, ‘Going on Holidays’, and ‘Grandfather and Grandson’; and copies of ‘Y Llifeiriant’ and ‘Syrcas’ by Huw Jones, ‘Meeting at Llanfihangel’ by Damian Walford Davies, and ‘Darganfod Hanes Cymru’ by Geraint H. Jenkins;

Papers, 1993-1994, relating to the Welsh Academy’s ‘Poets on Poets: Taliesin and Aneirin’ event at Coleg Harlech, 1994, featuring Greg Hill, Gillian Clarke, Chris Meredith, and Tony Conran. The file includes letters (1993-1994), from Greg Hill (unsigned) (1), Kevin Thomas (1), Gillian Clarke (1), and Tony Conran (1); a poster advertising the event (1994); typescript copies of poems intended to be featured ([1994]), including a verse from Aneirin’s 'Gododdin', and the poems ‘Aneirin Speaks’ and ‘Heroes’, by Raymond Garlick, and ‘Over the Top’, ‘Elegy for the Welsh Dead in the Falkland Islands, 1982’, and ‘Becca at the Gate’ by Greg Hill; and a copy of the booklet ‘Ancestors: Translations from Early Welsh Verse & Variations on a Theme’ by Greg Hill ([?1994]).