File relating to the 1974 Christmas Poetry Supplement of the Poetry Book Society, edited by Philip Larkin

Includes general correspondence with Charles Osborne and Jonathan Barker of the Poetry Book Society. There is correspondence with contributors including: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Joan Barton, John Bayler and Iris Murdoch, Patricia Beer, Charles Causley, Robert Conquest, Douglas Dunn, James Fenton, Robert Garioch, John Hall, Ian Hamilton, John Hewitt, Christopher Logue, Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, Stuart Montgomery, Alan Ross, Jon Stallworthy, Anthony Thwaite and John Wain. There is also correspondence with those to whom poems were returned including: Alan Brownjohn, Denis Enright, Gavin Ewart, Roy Fisher, Roy Fuller, Molly Holden, Elizabeth Jennings, George Macbeth, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Peter Porter and Vernon Scannell. Contains proofs and typescripts, with some annotations, of the poems used and a Christmas Poetry Supplement from 1969.

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