Correspondence with and relating to American poet Edgar Bowers. This principally relates to the British edition of Bowers's Living together: new and selected poems (Carcanet, 1977). Includes references to: Schmidt's enthusiasm for the work of Bowers, which was brought to his attention by Clive Wilmer; Bowers's own enthusiasm for the project; contractual issues and negotiations with American publisher David Godine over rights in the book, and arrangements for the Carcanet edition to be offset from the Godine edition; Carcanet's previous problems in dealing with Godine; the possibility of Thom Gunn writing an introduction to the book or reviewing it in PN Review; corrections to be made to the offset text; the inclusion of two of the poems in a BBC Radio Scotland programme in 1979; and Bowers's purchase of unsold copies of the book in 1980. In addition to the Bowers correspondence, the file includes correspondence with David Godine, copies of accounts relating to Godine dealings, and a list of corrections to be made for the British edition.
Other topics include: Bowers's admiration for PN Review (/14); plans for a new sequence of poems called 'Witnesses' to be published in PN Review [20] (/15-16); a visit to Britain in summer 1979, where Bowers met Robert [Wells], Dick Davis and Michael Vince; and a planned piece by Bowers on [Yvor] Winters for PN Review.
Bowers's letters are dated at: Santa Barbara, California, USA; Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA; and Oxford, England.
Holograph and typescript.