Identity area
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Date(s)
- 1976-[2010] (Creation)
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Is-fonds / Sub-fonds
Extent and medium
1 large box
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers of multi-lingual sound/concrete poet and verbal/visual artist Peter Noel Meilleur ('Childe Roland'), comprising poetry; plays; two- and three-dimensional constructions/images; musical collaborations; correspondence; and miscellaneous material of or relating to Peter Meilleur.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Dated items arranged chronologically.
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Conditions governing access
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Language of material
- English
- French
- Welsh
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Allied materials area
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Notes area
Note
Peter Noel Meilleur, multi-lingual sound/concrete poet and verbal/visual artist, was born in Guildford, Surrey in 1943 to an English mother and French-Canadian father. He was raised in Québec, Canada and moved to Wales in 1979. Meilleur's many works include six of clubs (1997), Shearwater Oratorio (first performed 2000) and the one-act plays Ham and Jam and Pearl (2010). His choral and multi-media settings of poems were often written in a linguistic mix of English, French and Welsh.. Meilleur has also constructed three-dimensional representations of verbal/linguistic concepts, such as 'B-line', which represents the letter 'B' as largely unchanged since its Egyptian hieroglyphic origins, and the prayer-wheel windmills which he 'planted' on Bardsey Island in [date].
Note
Letters to Nigel Jenkins from Peter Meilleur are listed in the archive under Correspondence of Nigel Jenkins: Letters to Nigel Jenkins from family members, friends and associates.