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The file comprises papers, [1975]-1976, relating to Poems '76, ed. Glyn Jones (Llandysul, 1976). The poems included in the anthology appeared between 1974 and 1976, though it seems they were composed, and some published, before this period. Some of the notes are written on typescript drafts of works which appear to have been composed by Glyn Jones. -- In addition the file contains correspondence, 1975-1976, including draft letters by Glyn Jones and copies of a letter by him requesting the authors' permission to use their poems in the anthology, and letters from the following, mostly contributors: John Ackerman (2), Sam Adams (3), Graham Allen (2), Ruth Bidgood, Alison Bielski (2), Joseph Clancy, Bobi Jones, Anthony Conran (2), Tony Curtis (2), Elwyn Davies (3), Jon Dressel, Dannie Abse, Tom Earley, Raymond Garlick, Jeremy Hooker (3), Emyr Humphreys (2), Nigel Jenkins, Sally Roberts Jones (3), Edward Lloyd (4), Roland Mathias (3), Robert Minhinnick (2), John Ormond (2), Richard Poole, A. G. Prys-Jones, Harri Gwynn, Sheenagh Pugh (3), Meic Stephens, R. S. Thomas (1), J. P. Ward (2), Harri Webb, Gwyn Williams and John Stuart Williams (2). Copies of poems are enclosed with some letters.

Printed material relating to UK poetry festivals and poetry readings attended by John Barnie, 1996-2016, including the Wales in London festival (1996); St Davids Day Poetry Festival, Harlech (1997); Aberystwyth International Poetry Festival (1998); University of Birmingham Centre of West African Studies poetry reading (1999); ‘R.S. Thomas: A Celebration’ poetry reading (2001); the book launch for John Barnie's work 'Ice' (2001); the Cross Fertilisations conference (2004); the Darwin Festival, Cambridge (2009); Wenlock Poetry Festival (2010); Talgarth Festival of the Black Mountains (2010); and Oxford Poets in Residence (2016). The file also contains notes in the hand of John Barnie ([c.2000] x [c.2010]); an ink sketch of John Barnie, artist unknown (2009); programme notes for a performance entitled 'Witch' (2012); and four photographs, of John Barnie, Gillian Clarke, Robert Minhinnick, Geoffrey Hill, Jason Walford Davies and Roy Birch, Aberystwyth (2000).

Letters to Sam Adams from Robert Minhinnick (4), R.S. Thomas (2) and Gillian Clarke (2) concerning poems to be published in Poetry Wales and the Anglo-Welsh Review, as well as social matters, including copies of poems by Gillian Clarke, together with a letter from Anthony Conran concerning a proposed anthology to be edited by Gwilym Rees Hughes.

Deunydd yn ymwneud â The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry (2003), cyfrol o gerddi mewn cyfieithiad a gyd-olygwyd gan Menna Elfyn a'r Athro John Rowlands, gan gynnwys adolygiadau, erthyglau, datganiadau i'r wasg, drafft o'r rhagymadrodd a gohebiaeth oddi wrth gyfranwyr i'r gyfrol (neu eu cynrychiolwyr) - sy'n cynnwys llythyr oddi wrth Twm Morys yn gwrthod y cynnig o gyflwyno'i waith - ynghyd â llythyrau at Menna Elfyn oddi wrth John Rowlands ac oddi wrth aelodau o'r tîm cyfieithu, sy'n cynnwys Nigel Jenkins, Tony Conran, Robert Minhinnick a Joseph Clancy.

Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys teipysgrifau yn bennaf, ynghyd â rhai drafftiau llawysgrif a chopïau printiedig, o erthyglau a sgriptiau Saesneg gan Carys Richards, 1957-[2001] (gydag amryw fylchau). Maent yn ymdrin ag amrywiaeth o bynciau; yn eu plith mae adolygiadau o arddangosfeydd celf; ei hatgofion am Olga Rudge, a gyhoeddwyd yn y New Welsh Review, 1990, a Phyllis Playter, a gyhoeddwyd yn The Powys Review, 1991; ac erthygl ganddi, 1999, yn adrodd atgofion Ian Tibbs, cyd-swyddog Alun Lewis yn y fyddin. Mae'r ffeil hefyd yn cynnwys llythyrau perthnasol, yn eu plith rhai gan Evelyn Silber (2), Belinda Humfrey (3), Robin Reeves a Robert Minhinnick, a drafftiau o lythyrau gan Carys Bell.