Correspondence with English poet Val Warner, most of which relates to the preparation of three volumes published by Carcanet during this period. For correspondence relating to her pamphlet These yellow photos (1971) see /1, /4-/5, /15-16, /19-20, /22 and /34-35; letters relating to her poetry collection Under the penthouse (1973) (which document the compilation of the volume, the contents of which were selected from a large number submitted to Schmidt on a piecemeal basis) are at /7-8, /11-13, /17, /23, /25-27, /29-30, /32-33, /39-40, /42 and /51. /52 is a typescript blurb for the book marked up for printing. Finally, correspondence relating to the evolution and publication of The centenary Corbière: poems and prose of Tristan Corbière, translated and introduced by Warner (1974) (including a reference to Douglas Dunn's thoughts on her translations) is at (/3, /7-10, /17, 19, /21-23, /25, /28-31, /33, /36 and /42).
Other topics include: Warner's attempts to find subscribers to Carcanet in 1971; plans for other translation projects; poems submitted to Schmidt which were not included in her Carcanet publications (see /6, /10 and /28); her comments on Schmidt's poems (/5-6, /14, /23 and /42); her admiration for Peter Porter's work (/8); her work as a copy-editor and proof reader for other publishers; her thoughts on Francis Warner's plays (/14), [Ian Hamilton's] The visit (1970) (/15), Peter Jones's The peace and the hook (/18) and Schmidt's critical volume, British poetry since 1960 (1972) (/28); and her work as a teacher.
The file includes numerous typescript poems by Warner (some which have been separated from their original covering letters). These include poems from both of her Carcanet collections, as well as some of her Corbière translations, and are as follows: 'Cross-section', 'Pigeon', 'Conversations', 'Undergraduate' (/26); 'Building Site' and 'Notation' (/31); 'Section', 'Starling', 'Conversations', 'Undergraduate', 'Masque', 'Railway Street' and 'Coda' (/39); 'Harriet Smithson', 'Street Market', 'One Man's Christmas Shopping', 'Soho', 'Danse macabre', 'Spinsterhood', "Conscientiously totting up some way down..." and 'Panoramic' (/40); 'Street fight', 'Hot Lips', 'Womens' magazine story - ii', 'Totter', 'the dinner-party', 'Portrait', 'Recluse', 'Falling down stairs' and 'Preview' (/41); 'the exhibitionist', 'cottage in Cornwall - iii', 'in memoriam', 'Billy', 'hospitalised', 'mistress', 'a stage', 'Portobello Road', 'career cocktail', 'with a Piaf record', 'anniversary', 'collapsible secretary', and 'generation gap' (/42); 'Letter from Mexico' ('Lettre du Mexique') (/43); 'The Cabin-Boy' ('Le Mousse') (/44); 'Reed-Pipe' ('Mirliton') (/45); 'Evil Landscape' ('Paysage mauvais') (/46); 'Paris By Night' ('Paris nocturne') (/47); 'Paris By Day' ('Paris diurne') (/48); 'Good Luck and Luck' ('Bonne fortune et fortune') (/49); and 'The Toad' ('Le Crapaud') (/50).
Dated at: London SW1.
Typescript with manuscript annotations.