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Letter, 2015, from Tony Curtis to Barry town councillors and other individuals/organisations concerning troublesome seagull activity around Barry's Cardiff and Vale College and surrounding areas

Letters, cards and emails, 2000-2020, to Tony Curtis largely relating to the literary and visual arts, correspondents including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (requesting an entry on poet and physician Dannie Abse); painter David Tress; painter and lecturer Iwan Gwyn Parry; poet and playwright Gillian Clarke; poet and writer Anne Stevenson; landscape painter Peter Prendergast; and textile artist Rozanne Hawksley.
Letters from [artist] Arthur Morgan encloses printed booklet relating to the Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2000: this material kept in marked envelope.

Correspondents are not indexed. For access to full range of correspondents, it is recommended that this section of the archive be requested for viewing.

Miscellaneous items by or relating to Tony Curtis, and general miscellanea.

Note that there are two separate items labelled ILA/1.

General miscellaneous items neither by nor relating to Tony Curtis but which form a part of this collection.

Printed flyer featuring poem by Tony Curtis titled 'Commedia del Goalie', which accompanied a touring exhibition by painter Alan Salisbury.

Proposal for a collaborative presentation featuring poetry by Tony Curtis and visual work by film-maker and photographer Jo Sowden as part of the Barry Art Central holocaust exhibition, held January 2017. The material includes photographs taken on a preparatory visit by Tony Curtis and Jo Sowden to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, together with grant request form to cover travel and accommodation expenses.

Letters, 1997-1998, to Tony Curtis from Sam Adams, editor of Seeing Wales Whole: Essays in honour of Meic Stephens (University of Wales Press, 1998), relating to the compilation and publication of the volume and to Curtis's contribution to the collection.
Letter, 1998, to Tony Curtis from Anglo-Welsh poet Raymond Garlick relating to Curtis's contribution to the collection.

For similar literary work see also under heading Articles and essays by Tony Curtis.

Three copies of short story by Tony Curtis titled 'Cuckoo in the Nest', apparently read by Curtis at an unnamed event ('TC Performance' inscribed at top of first page of first copy and 'Performance/Readings' typed under title on second and third copies).

Letters relating to the compilation and publication of Coal: An Anthology of Mining, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Seren Books in 1997, the correspondents comprising poets and writers Leslie Norris and Helen Dunmore, Mick Felton of Seren Books (enclosing draft Introduction to the volume, with amendments in Tony Curtis's hand) and Kate Strudwick of Blackwood Miners' Institute.

For the publication see, for example: https://www.gwales.com/goto/biblio/en/9781854111883/

Letters and card relating to the compilation and publication of Welsh Painters Talking, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Seren Books in 1997, the correspondents comprising Mick Felton of Seren Books, David Higgs of the British Council (to Mick Felton, with copy to Tony Curtis), poet and writer Helen Dunmore, Maggie Knight of the Washington Gallery, Penarth, artists Arthur and Bim Giardelli, sculptor and artist Jonah Jones, landscape painter Peter Prendergast and poet and writer Leslie Norris.

For the publication see, for example: https://www.waterstones.com/book/welsh-painters-talking/tony-curtis/9781854112002)

Letters relating to the compilation and publication of Welsh Artists Talking, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Seren Books in 2000. Correspondents comprise artist Alfred Janes (letter from Curtis to Janes), Oliver Fairclough, Keeper of Art at the (then) National Museum & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, artist Arthur Giardelli, painter Emrys Williams and sculptor, artist and teacher Lois Williams, the latter enclosing the interview conducted between her and Tony Curtis for Welsh Artists Talking (with amendments in Lois Williams's hand).

For the publication see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/welsh-artists-talking/.

Material relating to plays written by Tony Curtis.

Material relating to television broadcasts by Tony Curtis.

Notes made and essays submitted, 1966-1968, by Tony Curtis during his time as a student at Swansea University.

Notes made and essays submitted, 1966-1968, by Tony Curtis during his time as a student at Swansea University. Folder in which notes originally kept titled 'MODERN ENGLISH & AMERICAN', with list of literary figures and date ''66-8'. Essays include tutor observations and marks, and margin notes by Curtis. One set of notes (on T. S. Eliot) in another (unidentified) hand. Notes made by Curtis on rear of original folder retained with contents. Authors referenced include Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Harold Pinter, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller.

Names of literary figures referenced by Curtis are not indexed. For full details, viewing of material is recommended.

Letters, 1994-2012 and undated, from Tony Curtis, correspondents including poet and playwright Gillian Clarke and various public bodies.

One letter includes amendments in the hand of Tony Curtis's wife Margaret Curtis, another letter includes amendments in the hands of both Tony and Margaret Curtis.

Correspondents are not indexed. For access to full range of correspondents, it is recommended that this section of the archive be requested for viewing.

Rough notes in Tony Curtis's hand, one set of notes written on a Polytechnic of Wales examination answer booklet.

Printed programme of the 31st Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival, held 8 July to 2 September 1984, which includes an evening of readings from Welsh love poetry through the ages, the event devised by Tony Curtis and novelist Sian James.

Photocopied written account 'for Mr Curtis' of his life as a coal miner by one Ellis Powell, possibly a student of Tony Curtis's.

Printed invitation to an exhibition by artist Lorraine Bewsey titled 'Portreadau Beirdd / Poet Portraits' held at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, November 2006-January 2007, which included Tony Curtis's portrait.

Draft obituary by Tony Curtis of novelist Siân James, with observations and amendments on the text by an unidentified individual.

Details of recipients of the Society of Authors' literary awards, May 1997, which include Tony Curtis's receipt of the Cholmondeley Award.

Printed Seren Books catalogue, [late 1990s], which includes reviews of The Art of Seamus Heaney, edited by Tony Curtis and originally published by Poetry Wales Press in 1982, Curtis's collection of poems Taken for Pearls, published by Seren Books in 1993, and How Poets Work, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Seren Books in 1996. For all these publications see, for example, August 2002 papers under heading Poetry and prose by Tony Curtis.

Printed programme of the Creative Writing course at the then Polytechnic of Wales (now the University of South Wales), which includes details of Tony Curtis as leader of the course.

Printed details of the Young Writers competition, 1999, of which Tony Curtis was one of the judges.

Photocopied pages taken from the Winter 1995 issue of Modern Painters, the quarterly journal of fine arts.

Printed programme relating to a celebratory evening to mark poet and priest R. S. Thomas's 70th birthday, held at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, 17 May 1983.

Ink sketch by sculptor David Nash relating to a commission from the former University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) (possibly identified with (scroll to near end of article): https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/david-nash-opens-largest-exhibition-2052530)

Printed programme of an exhibition by painter Kyffin Williams, held at the Albany Gallery, Cardiff, April 1997.

Ballpoint pen sketches, with marginal annotation, by poet, writer and painter Alan Perry.

Printed programme of an exhibition by painter Brendan Stuart Burns titled 'In View', held at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, August-September 2007.

Pencil sketches and prints by painter John Selway, sketches annotated in Selway's hand and signed 'J. H. Selway'. Folder in which material originally kept inscribed in Tony Curtis's hand: 'John Selway Print Proje[c]t [signed] T Curtis'.

Printed programme of the 1990 Cardiff Literature Festival.

Proposal for a book titled How Radio Writers Work, edited by playwright, director and scenographer Sam Boardman-Jacobs.

Statement of finances and expenditure relating to the 10th Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English held at Gregynog Hall, Powys, March 1997.

Poetry by American poets, including James Ballowe, Lisel Mueller and Dave Etter. With statements and biographical notes.

Business details of artist/sculptors Viki Govan and Richard Warner, trading as Iron Vein.

Text, the original in Welsh, with separate English translation, relating to an exhibition by artist Shani Rhys James at the Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff (no year noted).

Printed memorial service programme for poet and film-maker John Ormond.

Photocopied article by poet John Montague taken from Comparative Criticism 19 (Cambridge University Press, 1997) titled 'Conversations with David Jones, 1969-1974'. The handwritten name and address of Montague' wife, Elizabeth Wassell, is inserted below the title.

Papers of the poet and writer Professor Tony Curtis, largely comprising material relating to the literary and visual arts, which includes poetry, prose, plays, talks and lectures, essays and articles, reviews, radio and television broadcasts by Tony Curtis, material relating to literary works edited by Curtis and correspondence to and from Curtis.

(Tentative) fonds date of 1879 refers to proposed original date of Victorian print in June 2021 papers under heading Tokens for the Foundlings.

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Material largely relating to the composition and publication of poetry and prose by Tony Curtis, including numerous draft and fair-copied poems and material relating to the composition and publication of some of his collections of poetry, together with poems inspired by Curtis's poetry reading tours of the United States and by his collaborative work with American poets.