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Material relating to Swansea Latin American Society. Items comprise printed information relating to forthcoming events, at one of which Nigel Jenkins presented; notes made by Nigel Jenkins on Victor Jara and on Latin-American poetry; correspondence; newsletters; and press cutting.

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 the Swansea Writers and Artists Group (SWAG). Items include draft constitution and outline of proposals; issues of SWAGmag members' and contributors' magazine; obituary of poet Harri Webb written by Nigel Jenkins; biographical details of contributors; details of SWAG executive members' meetings and AGMs; press releases; list of SWAG executive members; printed invitation to and printed notice of SWAG event; correspondence; SWAG headed notepaper; press cuttings; and rough notes by Nigel Jenkins.

Material relating to talks given by Nigel Jenkins at the 1988 St David's Forum in Beaumaris and the 'Futures' event held at Tŷ Llên, Swansea in 1995; together with a series of talks on Alun Richards' Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories.

Material relating to a lecture entitled The Poet John Tripp, given by Nigel Jenkins at Bargoed Library on 21 March 1991. Items comprise printed poster advertising the lecture; annotated notes on John Tripp; and annotated outline of lecture.

Material relating to the musical blues group the Salubrious Rhythm Company, comprising Nigel Jenkins, John Barnie and Jen Wilson. Items include printed poster and flyers advertising performances; copies of poetry to be performed; correspondence; reviews and previews; annotated playlists; lists of venues and contacts; and correspondence.

Material relating to the compilation and publication of The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, co-edited by Nigel Jenkins and published by the University of Wales Press in 2008. Items comprise notes of meetings; reviews; and letter written to Nigel Jenkins in response to reading the volume.

Photocopied preliminary text, including frontispiece, of the 1991 edition of The Works, the annual magazine of the Welsh Union of Writers, edited by Nigel Jenkins; and manuscript notes by Nigel Jenkins, apparently towards a poem on the theme of Llyn y Fan Fach. Photocopied text annotated.

Photocopied text of The Works, the annual magazine of the Welsh Union of Writers, published as an anthology of poetry and prose by the Welsh Union of Writers in 1992 under the editorship of Nigel Jenkins; photocopied circular letter regarding publication; and postcard to Nigel Jenkins relating to the launch of the work. Anthology contributors include Tony Conran, Peter Finch, Janet Dubé, Steve Griffiths, Terry Hetherington and Alison Bielski.

Material relating to the Theatre Writers' Union (TWU), of which Nigel Jenkins was a member. Items include TWU newsletters; details relating to TWU meetings; printed agreement between the TWU and other literary organisations; letter to Nigel Jenkins from the TWU; general information relating to the TWU; and press cutting.

Material relating to the compilation and publication of Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tony Conran, edited by Nigel Jenkins and published by the Welsh Union of Writers in 1995. Items include annotated lists of contributors, their items and expenses; overviews of book contents; annotated draft submissions; biographical details relating to contributors; list of proposed photographs to be included in book; notes on Tony Conran and examples /excerpts from his works; correspondence, including letters from Tony Conran; and rough notes by Nigel Jenkins.

Annotated draft text of Thirteen Ways of Looking at Tony Conran, edited by Nigel Jenkins and published by the Welsh Union of Writers in 1995.

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.

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.

Material relating to poetic tours and readings undertaken by Nigel Jenkins and others. Some of the poems which appear were utilised in more than one of the reading events.

Papers of Nigel Jenkins relating both to his period of study at the University of Essex, where he read comparative literature and film studies, and to later academic studies of Nigel Jenkins.

Papers relating to Nigel Jenkins' period of study at the University of Essex, where he read comparative literature and film studies, and also to later academic studies of Nigel Jenkins.

Papers relating to Nigel Jenkins' period of study at the University of Essex, where he read comparative literature and film studies, and also to later academic studies of Nigel Jenkins. Items include essays; examination papers; lecture notes; bibliographies; and other notes/plans (partly in shorthand). Many folios annotated by Nigel Jenkins. Papers include letter, 1980, to Nigel Jenkins from poet, publisher and critic Sally Roberts Jones.

Play by Adrian Mitchell entitled Uppendown Mooney, inscribed to Nigel Jenkins and Delyth Evans from Adrian Mitchell at front of volume; and play by Tony Conran entitled Branwen: A Revolutionary Tragedy, with profile of the work by Nigel Jenkins.

Material relating to the writing of Nigel Jenkins' play Waldo's Witness (1986), including several drafts of the work.