Ffeil / File EBD/1 - The Art of Seamus Heaney (Poetry Wales Press, 1982)

Material, the vast majority of which is photocopied, relating to the compilation of Tony Curtis (ed.):The Art of Seamus Heaney, published by Poetry Wales Press in 1982, comprising: photocopied draft typescript texts by contributors, which include poet and writer Anne Stevenson, poet, translator and academic Dick Davis, poet, critic and lecturer Philip Hobsbaum and poet, writer and critic Roland Mathias; introduction, fly-leaf notes, index, etc, by Tony Curtis; critical paper by Tony Curtis relating to Seamus Heaney's collection of poems Field Work (Faber & Faber, 1979) submitted, 1980, during the course of Curtis's academic studies at Goddard College, Vermont (see August 2002 and April 2016 papers under heading Goddard College), together with material photocopied from printed source; details of a reading of Seamus Heaney's works by Tony Curtis, held at the Bute Theatre, Cardiff, November 1981; letters to Tony Curtis from contributors to the volume and from other correspondents, including Anne Stevenson and poet, critic, teacher, playwright and magic lanternist David Annwn (Jones), and letters to Tony Curtis from publishing houses, including Rosemary Goad of Faber & Faber; photocopied draft manuscript and typescript versions and photocopy from printed source of the poem 'North' (initially titled 'North Atlantic') by Seamus Heaney; printed Poetry Wales Press catalogue, 1981/2; material by or relating to Seamus Heaney photocopied from printed sources; and rough manuscript notes.

For the publication see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/product/the-art-of-seamus-heaney-paperback/.

See also August 2002 and April 2016 papers under heading Goddard College.