Ffeil / File AAA/7 - The Arches (Seren Books, 1998)

Material relating to the production of The Arches, published by Seren Books in 1998 (see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/the-arches/), which contains Tony Curtis's poetic responses to collages created by Surrealist artist and poet John Digby. The material includes draft, fair-copy and printed poetry (some annotated by Tony Curtis) and prints and copies of collages by John Digby (where apparent, each collage has been paired with the relevant poem); printed programme, with related material, of a slide/tape presentation of Digby's collages coupled with Curtis's poetry, also called 'The Arches', produced as part of the Festival of Vision held at the University of Glamorgan, May 1996 (text annotated by Tony Curtis); printed booklets titled 'Improvisations on Rimbaud's Drunken Boat' (copyright 1995) and 'Collages' (undated) containing poetry and reproductions of collages by John Digby; and correspondence, 1994-1998 and undated, between John Digby and Tony Curtis, two letters, 1997, from John Digby to Mike Felton of Seren Books and letter, 1996, to Tony Curtis from Anne Cluysenaar of the Usk Valley Vaughan Association. Together with typescript prose piece titled 'Appropriate Behaviour' (author not noted); Arts Council of Wales funding guidelines for 1996/7; note, 1997, to Tony Curtis from Isabelle Thomas, Literature Development Officer for Cambridgeshire County Council; note, 1998, to Tony Curtis from Italian poet Andrea Bianchi; letter, 1998, to Tony Curtis from jazz musician and composer Tim Whitehead; printed invitation to attend a reception at the West Harbour Gallery, Oyster Bay, New York State; paper, most likely authored by Tony Curtis, titled 'A Cageload of Men', which outlines a proposition for 'an exhibition and accompanying publication to explore and illuminate the practice of artists in depicting miners and mining in Wales'; and a case statement titled 'New Europe 1999: Europe Reconsidered at Century's End' compiled by the Dance Theater Workshop, New York City.