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Nom et localisation du dépôt
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Collection
Titre
Poem of the Month Club Collection
Date(s)
- 1970-1977 (Création/Production)
Importance matérielle
2 boxes (7 linear inches)
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
The Poem of the Month Club was founded in 1970 by Jack H. Clark and Winston Fletcher. The mission of the club was to publish a "substantial and characteristic" original poem by a leading British poet. Among the poets published by the club were W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, Cecil Day-Lewis and Stevie Smith. The poems were printed on fine quality broadsides, suitable for framing, and signed by the author.
Roy Fuller, poet and Professor of at Oxford, and Cecil Day-Lewis, poet laureate, were the club's professional advisors who helped to solicit and select poems for publication. From 1970-1977 the club published four folios of twelve poems each. (The last two poems of the fourth folio were not published until 1977, although the folio is dated 1973-1974.) The Poem of the Month Club ended in 1977, a victim of declining interest and increased difficulty in finding new material.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
This collection consists of miscellaneous files, alphabetical files on the authors, and a complete original folio of poems. Within the first miscellaneous file is background information on the club and correspondence with Bloomsbury Book Auctions. Other miscellaneous files consist of correspondence. the author files primarily consist of correspondence between poet and club directors, contracts with the club, and proofs of the broadsides. There are originals and carbon copies in the files. Many of the letters and proofs are annotated and contain original signatures. The complete folio contains signed broadsides as well as any other material sent with the poem, such as a brief biography or note from the author regarding his poem.
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Accès physique
These materials are housed at an off-site facility and can take a minimum of 7 business days for retrieval.
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Langue des documents
- anglais
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Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
The collection of files (excluding the folio) was purchased by Texas A&M University from Jack Clark through Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1994. The folio was purchased in 1993.
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Notes spécialisées
- Information en traitement: For preservation purposes, all broadside proofs were removed from their respective file folders and placed in a flat archival box during processing. In addition, the complete Poem of the Month Club folio was placed in the same box.
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