'Letters 2001-2002'

Scope and Content

Letters and papers from a box file labelled by EF 'Letters 2001-2002 (email by then far more interesting)'. The file also includes some material from 2000. Correspondents represented include: Ruth [Fainlight]; Moris Farhi; Leah Fritz; Liu Hongbin; Michael Horovitz; Angela [Livingstone?]; Ruth Padel; Michael Schmidt; Emma Tennant; and Daniel [Weissbort].

Topics of correspondence include: invitations for EF to speak about Ted Hughes in various contexts, including Lowdham Book Festival, the Poetry Society, and Belsize Public Library; invitations to speak at various other events and festivals including Bath Festival (March 2002), Davar Jewish Book Festival in Bristol (May 2002), the 2002 Cúirt International Festival of Literature, a seminar in Madrid, 'Women, Language and Gender' (organised through the British Council), StAnza (Scotland's Poetry Festival) in 2002, and the Off the Shelf Literature Festival in Sheffield, October-November 2002; permissions requests; EF's novel Dark Inheritance; EF's biography Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet, including permission to use quotes from an article by Glen Fallows, possible amendments for the paperback edition, a proof for the jacket which is included, along with a draft blurb; the inclusion of translated poems by Yunna Moritz in EF's Collected Poems and Translations, to be published by Carcanet press in 2002; the bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001; an edition of EF's poems in Spanish edited by Jordi Doce, and discussions of a potential title; the possibility of EF acting as a judge for the Poetry Section of the London Writers Competition, 2000; and general personal and family matters.

The file also includes: a printed Christmas card from Leah Fritz which includes one of her poems; bundle of TS material relating to work by Ruth Padel; TS sheet listing 'Hughes corrigenda'; two photocopies of different sketches of EF dated 12 October 2001; colour photograph of a street scene from an unidentified location; a booklet about the 2002 New Zealand Festival, which EF was involved in; photocopy of EF's poem 'Getting Older', from a publication; proof of a review by EF in Poetry London: 'Poems by Brodsky's Mentor and a Pole's Witty Verse on Nazi Brutality'; TS poem, 'A German Requiem' (possibly incomplete, and unattributed); and a brochure relating to the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Former reference: Box 25.

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