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Material relating to literature and the arts, including material relating to the literary promotion agency Canto; material relating to Swansea as 1995's City of Literature (as part of the 1995 Year of Literature celebrations); notes and memoranda by Nigel Jenkins; watercolour and chalk painting; and miscellaneous material relating to literature and the arts.

Material relating to the literary promotion agency Canto, including applications by Canto to the Arts Council of Wales; material relating to the Arts Council of Wales, the Welsh Academy and Antur Teifi; correspondence; projected expenses; press releases; mission statements; newsletters; and biographical details relating to Nigel Jenkins. One or two folios annotated by Nigel Jenkins.

Miscellaneous material relating to literature and the arts, including printed exhibition programmes; printed arts associations booklets, one of which features a poem by Nigel Jenkins; printed theatre programmes, chiefly relating to Made in Wales theatre company productions; Welsh Academy conference material; Welsh Academy newsletters; printed Welsh Academy posters; poster relating to play-writing competition; printed book cover; material relating to a Northumberland Theatre Company production; and press cuttings.

Watercolour and chalk painting in the style of rock/cave art.

Miscellaneous material relating to Nigel Jenkins' period of incarceration at HM Prison Swansea in 1988 for non-payment of fines following his part in a peace protest at the American air base in Brawdy, Pembrokeshire.

Miscellaneous notes of Nigel Jenkins, including several reporter's notebooks containing notes largely in shorthand; annotated biographical data relating to Nigel Jenkins; and various notes and plans.

Miscellaneous material of Nigel Jenkins, including address book.

Miscellaneous material of Nigel Jenkins, comprising printed address book of Nigel Jenkins; printed entrance tickets to Greek tourist sites; drawn map of Wales, highlighting south-west locations; printed British Iron & Steel Research Association newsletter; and note of address in France. Front cover of BISRA newsletter annotated.

Copy of poetic anthology by Nigel Jenkins entitled First Collection, published by Brighton Press in 1972. Typescript booklet.

Two printed copies of Practical Dreams, an anthology of poems by Nigel Jenkins published by Galloping Dog Press in 1983. One copy is annotated and foliated by Nigel Jenkins and includes a typescript sheet of annotated poetry pasted in between ff. 26 and 27.

Material relating to Nigel Jenkins' controversial poem An Execrably Tasteless Farewell to Viscount No, written on the death of George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy and former Speaker of the House of Commons. The material comprises a photocopy of the poem published on the front page of the Guardian, 21 October 1997; mixed media response to the poem; and supportive correspondence sent to Nigel Jenkins, the correspondents including Jenkins' friend and Swansea City councillor Ioan Richard.

Material relating to the compilation of Hotel Gwales, a poetic anthology by Nigel Jenkins published by Gomer Press in 2006, comprising printed agreement between Nigel Jenkins and Gomer Press; printed invitation and printed poster giving notice of book launch; printed notice of Nigel Jenkins' appearance at the Hay Festival; reviews of Hotel Gwales; and printed email to Nigel Jenkins from Elizabeth Richards, aged 12, regarding Hotel Gwales book launch event.

Material relating to the 1992 Garden Festival Wales held at Ebbw Vale, at which Nigel Jenkins collaborated with other poets and with artists. Items include a photocopied drawing showing an annotated landscape plan by artist Paul Davies for the Garden Festival Wales; proposed poetry text; printed agreements between Nigel Jenkins and the Garden Festival Wales; letters to Nigel Jenkins from Paul Davies, with material relating to Paul Davies' work as an environmental artist and sculptor and material relating to the artists' collaboration Grŵp Beca, of which Paul Davies was a member; letters to Nigel Jenkins from poets Peter Finch and Peter Meilleur ('Childe Roland'), who also participated in the festival, both enclosing poetry, and from poet, writer and playwright Menna Elfyn, together with a letter to Menna Elfyn from Peter Meilleur; correspondence and related papers sent between Nigel Jenkins and the organisers of the festival, some annotated by Nigel Jenkins; site maps; press cuttings; and notes by Nigel Jenkins.

Material relating to a Swansea municipal poetry project in which Nigel Jenkins, along with other poets and artists, was commissioned to take part. The material includes printed material relating to public art; correspondence, principally between Nigel Jenkins and Swansea City Council and between Nigel Jenkins and Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales; proposed poetry texts; architectural plans; overview of project; biographical details relating to Nigel Jenkins and fellow poet Menna Elfyn; articles and reports by Nigel Jenkins; press cuttings; and notes and draft poetry by Nigel Jenkins.

Material relating to Song for a Raggy Boy, an event to mark National Poetry Day and to celebrate the life and work of Irish poet, playwright, writer and singer Patrick Galvin held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, October 2011. Items comprise colour-coded list of poets taking part (initials only); schedule of poems to be read, with musical numbers underlined; copies of poems to be read, with colour-coded highlights denoting readers; and notes by Nigel Jenkins.

Material relating to the poetic tour of the United States, England and Ireland undertaken in 1997-1998 by poets Nigel Jenkins, Iwan Llwyd and Menna Elfyn under the title Three for Wales. Items include overviews of tour; tour itineraries, annotated by Nigel Jenkins, and maps; projected tour expenses; poetry, largely Welsh poetry with English translations, many annotated by Nigel Jenkins; letters to Nigel Jenkins from Menna Elfyn and Iwan Llwyd and from tour venue correspondents; article by Nigel Jenkins; notebook of Nigel Jenkins, audience response to readings; printed material relating to arts events; notes, partly in shorthand, by Nigel Jenkins; and press cuttings.

Miscellaneous poetic material of Nigel Jenkins, including draft, fair-copy and published poems; notes relating to the compilation of poems; and signed illustrated posters of Nigel Jenkins' poem Porth Cwyfan.

Material relating to the writing of published prose works by Nigel Jenkins as sole author.

Material relating to the writing of Nigel Jenkins' Gwalia in Khasia, published by Gomer Press in 1995. Items include printed agreement between Nigel Jenkins and Gomer Press; letters to Nigel Jenkins from correspondents in Shillong and from A T Mays travel agents; letters of reference and introduction on behalf of Nigel Jenkins; material relating to the shortlisted candidates for the 1996 Wales Book of the Year; letters and cards from various correspondents following publication of Gwalia in Khasia and its winning the Wales Book of the Year prize, 1996 (correspondents including Peter Meilleur, Dafydd Rowlands and Ioan Richard); travel itineraries; overview of Gwalia in Khasia; printed invitation to launch of Gwalia in Khasia; copy of Circa21 newspaper, July 1995, containing extract from Gwalia in Khasia; royalty statements; reviews; printed material and press cuttings from Shillong and the Khasi Hills; and photocopied notes and photographs from printed sources.

Material relating to the writing of Nigel Jenkins' Through the Green Door: Travels Among the Khasis, published in 2002 by Penguin Books (India) (initially published by Gomer Press as Gwalia in Khasia in 1995). Items comprise review of Through the Green Door; printed email to Nigel Jenkins attaching article by Morning Star Sumer; and letters to Nigel Jenkins regarding a proposed visit to north-east India.