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Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973
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B. S. Johnson

First edition of Bryan Stanley (B. S.) Johnson's experimental novel The Unfortunates, published by Panther Books Ltd in 1969, comprising loose leaves of the novel wrapped in a plastic binding and encased within a box, with printed instructions by Johnson on how to read the novel.
Together with press cuttings reviewing The Unfortunates; letters and cards, 1969-1973, from B. S. Johnson to Tony Curtis; and press cuttings announcing the death of B. S. Johnson in 1973. For The Unfortunates see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unfortunates

Letters to Sam Adams,

The file comprises 322 letters to Sam Adams, from Graham Allen (11), Ruth Bidgood (9), Alison Bielski (5), Duncan Bush (4), Joseph Clancy (6), Gillian Clarke (7), Tony Curtis (8), John Davies (13), Jon Dressel (7), Raymond Garlick (11), Jeremy Hooker (36), B. S. Johnson (4), Glyn Jones (15), Roland Mathias (60), Robert Morgan (21), Leslie Norris (44), John Ormond (5), Philip Pacey (15), Alun Rees (11), John Tripp (13), and Harri Webb (16). -- The correspondence mainly relates to poetry, especially Poetry Wales, The Triskel poets series, Ten Anglo-Welsh poets (1974), and to the anthology of short stories, The Shining Pyramid (1970). There are also copies of poems by B. S. Johnson, Leslie Norris, and John Tripp; English translations by Joseph Clancy of poems by Bobi Jones; and biographical information provided by Graham Allen, Alison Bielski, Gillian Clarke, John Davies, Robert Morgan and Alun Rees.

Allen, Graham, 1938-

Reviews

Rough manuscript, draft typescript and photocopied published reviews, comprising:
Reviews by Tony Curtis of: Some Corner of an English Field by Dannie Abse (Hutchinson, 1956); Remembrance of Crimes Past by Dannie Abse (Hutchinson, 1990); Love on the Moor: Poems 1965-68 by Glyn Hughes (Phoenix Press, 1968); Wales - an Anthology by Alice Thomas Ellis (Collins, [1989]); Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore (Viking/Penguin, 1993); Ten Irish Poets, ed. James Simmons (Carcanet, 1974); the poetry of Bryan Stanley (B. S.) Johnson; Hats (collection of poems and songs) by Norman Schwenk (reader's report); Mirages (Cwm Nedd Press, 1975) and The Florentine Sonnets (Cwm Nedd Press, 1976), both by Chris Torrance, with covering letter from Robert [? ]; and A New Life by Bernard Malamud (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, first published 1961).
Together with letters, 1988, 1992, to Tony Curtis (one annotated by Curtis) from translator and lecturer Christine Pagnoulle, enclosing a translation into French of a review by Curtis; and review by novelist, poet and literary historian Glyn Jones of Tony Curtis's short story 'The Way Back' (for which see under heading Short stories), together with letter, 1977, to Curtis from Glyn Jones.