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- 1984-2021 (Creation)
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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.
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For Siân James see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%A2n_James_(novelist)
Stratford Poetry Festival possibly identified with: https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/
.For portrait artist Lorraine Bewsey see, for example: http://www.lorrainesartstudio.co.uk/index.html, particularly http://www.lorrainesartstudio.co.uk/4.html
For the Society of Authors see, for example: https://www2.societyofauthors.org/
For the Cholmondeley Awards see, for example: https://www2.societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/cholmondeley-awards/
For Seren Books see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/
For the University of South Wales see, for example: https://www.southwales.ac.uk/
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- James, Sian, 1930-2021 (Subject)
- Powell, Ellis (Subject)
- Stratford Literary Festival (annual literary festival, Stratford-upon-Avon, England) (Subject)
- Bewsey, Lorraine (Subject)
- Society of Authors (Great Britain) (Subject)
- Seren Books (publishers) (Subject)
- University of South Wales (Cardiff, Newport & Pontypridd, Wales) (Subject)