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Tony Curtis e altri Gallesi: Poesia Anglo-Gallese Contemporanea

Photocopied poster advertising poetry reading sessions, featuring Tony Curtis, Professor Valerio Fissore, film director and writer Andrea Bianchi and poet and translator Silvana Siviero, held at Turin and Milan, no date noted. Poetry is taken from Tony Curtis (ed. Valerio Fissore, trans. Andrea Bianchi/Silvana Siviero): Dal Confine: Selected Poems in Italian (Mobydick, 2000) and Tony Curtis (ed.) (trans. Andrea Bianchi/Silvana Siviero): Assemblea di poeti: poesia anglo-gallese contemporanea (Mobydick, 1998) (see, for example: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/tony-curtis; https://www.mondadoristore.it/Dal-confine-Testo-gallese-Tony-Curtis/eai978888178156/; https://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search/expansion?q=&searchType=avanzato&channel__creator=%22Curtis%2C+Tony+%3C1946-++++%3E%22&channel__contributor=%22Curtis%2C+Tony+%3C1946-++++%3E%22&opCha__contributor=OR&opCha__creator=OR; https://opac.sbn.it/risultati-ricerca-avanzata/-/opac-adv/detail/RAV0324699?).

Talks and lectures by Tony Curtis

Papers relating to a lecture on Anglo-Welsh poetry by Tony Curtis, which include poetry by Anglo-Welsh writers such as Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, Robert Minhinnick and Harri Webb, and printed leaflet relating to the Centre for the Study of Welsh Writing in English at the Polytechnic of Wales (for which see under heading Polytechnic of Wales: Centre for the Study of Welsh Writing in English and November 2018 papers under the same heading).

Material for lectures compiled by Tony Curtis titled 'The Life of the Poem', dated 23 May 1995 and comprising photocopied rough manuscript drafts and photocopied printed poems by Curtis.

Papers relating to a talk by Tony Curtis on his own work and on poet and physician Dannie Abse at the Turin International Book Fair, May 2003, which include advisory notes by event organisers; script of Curtis's talk; and email correspondence between Tony Curtis and Director of Wales Literature Exchange Sioned Puw Rowlands. Also taking part in the talks were author, critic and translator Harri Pritchard-Jones, writer and playwright Eigra Lewis Roberts, poet and translator Silvana Siviero, writer and translator Andrea Bianchi, author, critic and psychiatrist Harri Pritchard-Jones, Professor of English and author Valerio Fissore, Sioned Puw Rowlands, poet and physician Dannie Abse and poet, translator and editor Elin ap Hywel. Emails include somewhat derogatory manuscript annotations by Curtis directed at Harri Pritchard-Jones.

Script of talk by Tony Curtis at an exhibition by sculptor, painter and printmaker Ana Maria Pacheco held at the Harlech Biennale arts festival (year not noted).

Letter to Tony Curtis from Cyril Evans of the National Library of Wales acknowledging Curtis's acceptance of an invitation to present a talk at the Library on 14 November 2018.

Letter from Eiluned Rees, Honorary Secretary of the Llansteffan Historical Society, thanking Tony Curtis for his talk on the First World War as part of Llansteffan Literary Festival 2018.

Script of talk given by Tony Curtis at a ceremony to award landscape painter David Tress the Glyndŵr Prize 2013. With amendments in Curtis's hand.

Printed flyer for talk given by Tony Curtis titled 'Pembrokeshire, Passchendaele and Perth; my family in the Great War', held at the Volcano Theatre, Swansea, 15 November 2018.

See also lecture by Tony Curtis on the life and work of Anglo-Welsh poet and writer John Tripp under heading The Meaning of Apricot Sponge: Selected Writings of John Tripp (Parthian Books, 2010) .

Other poetry by Tony Curtis

Draft and fair-copied poetry by Tony Curtis which does not appear to have been included in either of the collections Heaven's Gate (Seren Books, 2001) or Crossing Over (Seren Books, 2007). Different versions of the same poem are grouped together so that Curtis's development of the poem from initial rough draft(s) may be traced, with some poem titles changing over time (order in which drafts appear here does not necessarily reflect original development of poems).

The sequence of poems titled 'Crows Edges Black', translated from the Italian by Tony Curtis and Silvana Siviero, also includes a letter to Curtis from Siviero, biographical notes relating to writer and translator Andrea Bianchi and poet Giampiero Neri and excerpts translated by Curtis and Siviero from Neri's L'aspetto occidentale del vestito (Guanda, 1976).

For email, 23 January 2001, to Tony Curtis from Andrea Bianchi and Silvana Siviero, see under heading Letters to Tony Curtis.

WARNING: POEM TITLED 'RACES' CONTAINS (DELIBERATELY) OFFENSIVE RACIAL TERMINOLOGY (PRESUMABLY DOES NOT REFLECT AUTHOR VIEWS) (poem marked with cautionary 'post-it' note)