Ffeil / File CAB/1 - Wading Through Deep Water: The Parkinson's Anthology (Coychurch Press, 2001)

Material relating to the volume Wading Through Deep Water: The Parkinson's Anthology, edited by Tony Curtis, with dialogues by Val Bowden, and published by Coychurch Press in 2001 (see, for example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wading-Through-Deep-Water-Parkinsons/dp/0954027604). The material comprises correspondence addressed to Tony Curtis, with one letter addressed to his wife Margaret, largely from poets responding to requests to submit work (some poems included), together with discussion relating to preparation and publication of the anthology; programme of proposed events making up the launch of the anthology at the Troubadour, London, 19 November 2001; draft cover of anthology (annotated), printed draft copy (annotated) and final printed copy of the anthology; accounts relating to the publication of the anthology; and printout background information relating to the Parkinson's Disease Society. Those submitting work include poets Dannie Abse, Gillian Clarke, Anne Stevenson and Andrew Motion.

See also January 2014 papers under heading Letters to Tony Curtis (postcard to Curtis from Seamus Heaney dated 31 November [sic] 2000).

For names of all contributors to the publication, please access this section of the archive.