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Includes letters from Idris Caffrey (6); David Callard (7); Gareth Calway (5); Sally Carr (6); Phil Carradice (13); Joseph Clancy (13); Anne Cluysenaar (11); Gladys Mary Coles (3); Tony Conran (10); Alistair Crawford; Thomas Rain Crowe (7); and Tony Curtis (10).

Includes letters from Will Cowburn (enclosing poem); Joseph Clancy (4, including poems); Liz Cashdan; Birgit Carolin; Anthony Conran; Tony Curtis (3); Anne Cluysenaar (2); Pam Cockerill; Thomas Owen Clancy (including poem); and Michael J. Collins (2).

Includes letters from A. G. Prys-Jones (6); Ted Hughes; Anne Stevenson (4); Jean Earle (4); Bobi Jones; Gwyneth Lewis (5); Olivia Byard; Christine Evans (3); Maura Dooley (4); John Emyr (enclosing poem for Gillian Clarke); Sally Roberts Jones (3); Kate Foley; Anne Cluysenaar (2); Douglas Houston (enclosing poem for Gillian Clarke); Menna Elfyn; Ruth Bidgood; Michael Longley; Gweno Lewis; Leslie Norris; Charles Causley; Meic Stephens; Kevin Crossley-Holland; Lawrence Sail; M. Wynn Thomas (2); Shani Rhys-James (3); R. S. Thomas; Phil Clark; Dannie Abse; Raymond Garlick; Jeremy Hooker; and Nigel Jenkins.

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).

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.

Personal correspondence, 2006 July-December, consisting of letters and cards, discussing mainly political and literary matters including John Barnie's retirement as editor of Planet magazine, including correspondence from John Barnie (24); Bruce Clunies Ross (26); Shani Rhys James (1); Raymond Garlick (1); John Harris (1); Richard Poole (1); Anne Cluysenaar (1); Ian McDonald (1); Cary Archard (2); Nigel Jenkins (3); Keir Reeves (1); Robert Minhinnick (2); Patrick McGuinness (2); Pamela Petro (1); Stevie Davies (1); Knud Sørensen (3); Martin Leer (4); Barry Butson (3); Damian Walford Davies (1); Guy Vanderhaeghe (1); M.W. Thomas (1); Harriet Richards (1); Jen Wilson (1); Bengt Berg (1); Maria Grech Ganado (1); Gladys Mary Coles (1); and Talfan Barnie (1).

Personal correspondence, 2012 July-December, consisting of letters and cards, discussing mainly literary and social matters, including correspondence from John Barnie (1); Bruce Clunies Ross (17); Alan Barnie (2); Ian McDonald (8); David Lloyd (3); Robert Minhinnick (9); Peter Lord (3); Richard Poole (2); Nigel Jenkins (5); Jüri Talvet (3); Barry Butson (2); Sioned Pugh Rowlands (1); Jason Walford Davies (1); Ned Thomas (1); John Pickles (1); Roynon Collings (4); Anders Bune (2); Morten Søkilde (1); Jay Millar (1); Damian Walford Davies (1); Margaret Lloyd (2); John Harris (1); Anne Cluysenaar (1); Matthew Jarvis (4); Ozi Rhys Osmond (1); and Richard Douglas Pennant (1). The file also contains an order of service for the funeral of William Powell.

Personal correspondence, 2011 July-December, discussing mainly literary, social, and political matters, including letters from Pamela Stewart (as Jody Cothey) (1); Heather Phillips (1); Bruce Clunies Ross(16); Robert Minhinnick (3); Matthew Jarvis (2); David Lloyd (3); Nigel Jenkins (12); Anders Bune (2); Barry Butson (6); Ian McDonald (5); Emily Trahair (3); Jüri Talvet (6); Peter Lord (3); Colin Simpson (1); Jasmine Donahaye (1); Bill Welstead (1); Clare Morgan (1); Margaret Lloyd (1); and Huw Parri-Morgan (1). The file also contains copies of five book reports written by John Barnie (for Pete Marshall's 'Agog'; Anne Cluysenaar's 'Migrations'; Steve Griffiths' 'Surfacing'; Dewi Roberts' 'When Seasons Change'; and Cynan Jones' 'Everything I Found on the Beach'); and copies of a series of articles, 'Encounters with Genius', by Ian McDonald.

Personal correspondence, 1995-1996, consisting of letters and cards, discussing literary and domestic matters, including correspondence from Robert Minhinnick (2); Pamela Stewart (as Jody Cothey) (12); Peter Alexander (2); Bruce Clunies Ross (2); Anders Bune (1); Guy Vanderhaeghe (6); Anne Cluysenaar (1); Roynon Collings (1); Wyn Binding (3); Barry Butson (1); Christine Kinsey (1); and Richard Poole (2). The file also contains an album of colour photographs of the area surrounding Banc y Darren, Aberystwyth ([?1995]); and a sample of goat and llama hair included with a letter from Pamela Stewart.

Postcards and letters primarily addressed to Greg Hill, 1952; 1980-2010 (with gaps), mainly relating to the publication of poetry and reviews in books and journals including Poetry Wales, Planet, Agenda, New Welsh Review, Scintilla, PN Review, The Anglo-Welsh Review, Materion Dwyieithog/Bilingual Matters, and Friends’ Quarterly, and the anthologies The Dancing Pilgrimage of Water: Writings on Welsh Rivers, Lakes, and Reservoirs (2010), and Birdsong (2002); Greg Hill’s acceptance of the Manchester Cathedral Religious Poetry Competition 2001; and membership of The Welsh Academy/Yr Academi Gymreig (1988). Includes letters from Michael Farley (1); Jeremy Hooker (1); Robert Minhinnick (4); John Davies (1); John Barnie (2); Dewi Roberts (2); Charles Leftwich (1); Cary Archard (1); Richard Poole (2); Zoë Skoulding (2); Michael Schmidt (1); Robin Reeves (2); Anne Cluysenaar (3); Gwyneth Evans (1); Greg Hill (1); Mick Felton (1); Canon Albert Radcliffe (1); David Blamires (1); Ursula Freeman (1); William Cookson (1); Glenda Beagan (2), including a typescript copy of her poem ‘Bi-Lingual’ (1992); David Annwn (3); Raymond Garlick (1), including a copy of the first edition of the journal Dock Leaves (1952); Mike Jenkins (1); Tony Conran (1); and Kevin Thomas (1). The file also includes a typescript copy of ‘The Guesthouse’ by Steve Griffiths ([?1980x1995]); and a copy of Welsh Union of Writers News, Winter 1983/84.

Some ninety-nine letters and postcards, 1975-2013, from the poet and local historian Ruth Bidgood, Abergwesyn and later Beulah, Powys, addressed to the Rev. James Coutts, and frequently also to his wife Stevie, discussing her poetry, publications and public readings, her daily life and her family, containing frequent references to friends including Anne Cluysenaar, Angela Morton and A. M. (Donald) Allchin (ff. 1-188, 191-214).
Also included are typescript copies of eighteen of Bidgood's poems and sequences of poems, published and unpublished, [c. 1979]-2014, notably 'Hymn to Sant Ffraed' (ff. 215-225), most given by her to Coutts and a few re-typed by him, and cuttings and photocopies of a further fifteen poems from periodicals, 1983-2002 (ff. 25, 37-38, 52-53, 70, 116, 120, 215-265); typescript drafts, cuttings and photocopies of articles, interviews and reviews, [1978]-2006 (ff. 266-299), including two typescript articles by Donald Allchin (ff. 279-293); and a letter from Bidgood's friend Mary [MacGregor], of Myddfai, to James Coutts, 2 June 2009 (ff. 189-190). Many of the letters were written on the backs of sixty-three of Bidgood's own photographs, so as to resemble postcards; besides these a further twenty-nine of her photographs are also included amongst the letters.