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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 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.