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Dunmore, Helen, 1952-2017
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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.

How Poets Work (Seren Books, 1996)

Material relating to the compilation and production of How Poets Work, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Seren Books in 1996 (see, for example: How Poets Work, see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/how-poets-work/)
The material comprises:
Overview of the publication and list of contributing poets
Draft poetry by and printed interviews (conducted by Tony Curtis) with some of the contributing poets
Correspondence from Mick (Mike) Felton of Seren Books and from contributing poets Dannie Abse, Simon Armitage, Maura Dooley, Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, Douglas Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael Longley, Don Paterson and Anne Stevenson

Coal: An Anthology of Mining (Seren Books, 1997)

Letters relating to the compilation and publication of Coal: An Anthology of Mining, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Seren Books in 1997, the correspondents comprising poets and writers Leslie Norris and Helen Dunmore, Mick Felton of Seren Books (enclosing draft Introduction to the volume, with amendments in Tony Curtis's hand) and Kate Strudwick of Blackwood Miners' Institute.

For the publication see, for example: https://www.gwales.com/goto/biblio/en/9781854111883/