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Correspondence, 1996-2000, regarding the publication, commission, and use of literary works by John Barnie, including letters from John Barnie (1); Mairwen Prys Jones (7); Tony Bianchi (1); Ceinwen Jones (5); Neil Nuttall (1); Anne Cluysennar (3); Bryan Aspden (3); Wyn Binding (2); Iwan Bala (1); John Osmond (1); Xosé Méndez (1); Peter Read (2); David Lloyd (2); Menna Elfyn (1); Stewart Brown (1); Peter Finch (3); Roy Ashwell (1); Mark Roper (1); Marta Carracedo (1); Robert Minhinnick (2); Sue Davies (1); Adam Empson (1); Damian Walford Davies (2); Ian A. Bell (2) and Llion Pryderi Roberts (1). The file also includes two reader's reports for John Barnie's 'The Wine Bird' (1997) and a cover proof for the same title.

Correspondence, 2001-2011, regarding the publication, commission, and use of literary works by John Barnie, including letters from John Barnie (9); Ceri Anwen James (1); Robert Minhinnick (3); Anne Cluysenaar (3); William Greenaway (1); Llion Pryderi Roberts (1); Dabi István (1); John Pickles (1); Gladys Mary Coles (2); Damian Walford Davies (1); Dewi Roberts (1); Mick Felton (1); Will Atkins (1); Ceinwen Jones (1); Amy Wack (9); Ceri Wyn Jones (11); Paul Sutton (2); John Rowlands (1); Natalie Salmon (1); Chris McCabe (3); Mairwen Prys Jones (3); Nicholas Murray (3); Anders Bune (1); Peter Finch (3); Gwennan Evans (1); Bethan Mair (1); Chiara de Luca (3); Giorgia Sensi (1); Pît Dafis (1); Ceri Wyn Jones (7); and Tony Stringfellow (1).

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.

Letters, cards and email correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, publishers, agents, colleagues, academics, family, universities, government agencies, funding bodies, event organisers, artists and readers of her work concerning literary, social, personal and broadcasting matters, including the creation, publication, performance, translation, sales and impact of her literary work, her research, her literary collaborations and appearances, depression and illness, her inscription for the Wales Millennium Centre, her tributes to other writers, family news, fellowships at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the potential purchase of her archival papers, together with draft letters from Gwyneth Lewis, a typescript draft of the introduction to her verbal presentation on ‘The Health of Poetry’ and manuscript notes and memoranda relating to her work, and manuscript notes by her on typescript poems by George Szirtes, as well as related press cuttings, forms, booklets and event schedules, and also email printouts of family photographs, a short typescript essay by an unidentified author on Welsh attitudes to Ireland, a funeral address relating to her uncle in the United States, and a draft letter from Leighton Denver Davies to the Mountain Ash Golf Club. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: letters and documents concerning listing agreements, insurance and radio licensing, 2001-2007, relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s yacht ‘Jameeleh’; a copy of parts of her CV; printouts of parts of 'A Hospital Odyssey'; copies of work sent to her by Tom Bullough and C. K. Williams; a proof copy of part of Byron Rogers, The man who went into the West: the life of R.S. Thomas (Aurum : London, 2007); a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project; and other literary miscellanea, as well as part of a typescript report on the use of the Welsh language, reports and statistics concerning the media in Wales, and an equipment list relating to a trip to Lundy.

Correspondence including emails, letters and cards between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, agents, publishers, academics, other writers, universities, festival organisers, broadcasters, readers of her work and members of her family concerning personal, social and literary matters including the writing, quality, impact, publication and performance of her work, her research (notably on birdsong, genetics and physics), her collaborations with others, depression, college fellowships, her life at Stanford, health insurance in the USA, and her status as a former National Poet of Wales, with related press cuttings and publicity material for literary events, as well as publishers’ proofs of ‘A Hospital Odyssey’ with manuscript emendations by Gwyneth Lewis, a typescript copy of an introductory address given by her at a poetry reading by Paul Muldoon, manuscript notes and personal memoranda by her, photographs (mostly printed from emails) relating to her family and work, menus of meals held in honour of Gwyneth Lewis and others, and a typescript draft of the poem ‘Roe vs Wade’ by C.K. Williams. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: documents relating to health insurance in the USA; and a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project.

The file contains correspondence, 1970-1971, accumulated by Sally Roberts Jones as Secretary of the English Language Section of the Academi Gymreig. It includes a letter inviting A. G. Prys-Jones to become the next chairman of the English Language Section following the death of Jack Jones. There are also letters relating to poetry readings including one to be held by the poetry group Horse, established by Peter Finch. Other correspondents include Ron Berry, Alison Bielski, Gillian Clarke, Tom Earley, Raymond Garlick, Cyril Hodges, Jeremy Hooker, Belinda Humfrey, Glyn Jones, Douglas Phillips, Cecil Price, Meic Stephens, Gwyn Thomas (Rhondda), Ned Thomas, and J. P. Ward.

The file contains correspondence relating to a series of workshops and reading held in Wrexham in March 1986. Taking part were Peter Finch, Stewart Brown and Nigel Jenkins.

The file contains correspondence, quiz papers and various other papers relating to the literary quiz night held at the Oriel in Cardiff. Many prominent writers contributed rounds and there are letters from Glyn Jones, Roland Mathias, Peter Finch, John Tripp, Meic Stephens and others.

Papers of Peter Finch, comprising early poetry and literature, early typescripts, manuscripts, several hundred files and note books, proofs and research for the Real Cardiff trilogy, some files about the Writers Handbook, and correspondence, together with material accumulated through his involvement with the Association of Little Presses, including fanzines, unofficial publications, and experimental and amateur publications. The archive includes many aspects of Finch’s work, notably his concrete verse, visual poetry, sound poetry, found poetry and collage poems, and it reflects his technical experimentation with poems created on typewriters, word processors and photocopy machines.