Thursday 4 July 2019

Some additional materials

I have recently been contacted by Tom Pickard, who is working with the Poetry Foundation in Chicago on an exhibition about poetry in the north east of the UK.

Link to Poetry Foundation : https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/about

 He wanted versions of the photographs with a higher resolution than that of this blog, so I hunted out the box in which the original material lay. It had aged. The paper was always thin - now it's going 'crispy' at the edges, and the ring reinforcements have started to drop off. So I thought the best thing would be to scan the whole volume, including the fading typed text, and then select the photographs of interest from those scans.

Having done it, I thought, why not make this publicly available, so researchers and poetry lovers can use it as they wish ? There is just one reason - my father's attitude to women, which doesn't really  pass muster these days. But that is history.

Here is the original 'book' : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZEk22ljBoRgvQeUaKzxacIdaCLBm9OBP  

The higher resolution photographs can be made available to anyone interested. Please contact jeremyowenjames@gmail.com 

I have also found a draft version of the book. There are more pictures and fewer pages of text, but there may be material of interest there too. Another post will provide a link to that.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is very nice to see thank you. I remember Morden Tower and Ceolfrith.
Recognise many names here, and I see a photo of David Burnett, a very good friend of mine here in Edinburgh he collects wood engravings. In his 80's now!

I will show him the photo sometime, he doesn't have internet but still writes and produces many wonderful small printed books of poetry.

I have a good friend who was a friend of Neil Astley, he had good party's in Newcastle. Must look up my book about 'North East poets' by Neil.

Here is a link to David's website though it's not really up to date, sadly.
His collection of engarvings and small press books are in the United states.

http://davidburnettpoetry.co.uk/

All the best and thanks.

I wonder what the scene is like now re poetry in Newcastle and Durham? I live in Edinburgh so out of touch with it all.

Hetty Wilson
Artist/printmker

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