Items

• Anthology, 2013-05

  Performed 6 May 2013 in the ADC Bar, poetry. Contains programme and poster.
• Testament of Villon, 1985-06

  Performed 13-16 June 1985 and presented by the Poetry Festival Association. Records non-extant.
• Notes from biographies, works of fiction, poetry and history with references to West Indies, 1908 - 1915

  Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana [Guyana], Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.
• 1984-85 Season, 1985-01 - 1985-07

  Programmes for the Lent and Easter terms and the Cambridge Poetry Festival held in June and the Cambridge Festival held in July.
• Essay Competition, 1922 - 2009

  The Royal Commonwealth Society Essay Competition was originally established in 1883, when prizes were first offered to school children in the United Kingdom for the best essays submitted on a set imperial topic. In 1913 the competition was opened to schools overseas. It rapidly expanded to become the world’s oldest and largest international schools’ writing contest, reflecting the society’s enduring aim to foster the creative talent of young people throughout the Commonwealth by encouraging literacy, self-expression and imagination. In 2015 it was renamed the Queens’s Essay Competition to celebrate Elizabeth II’s role as both Head of the Commonwealth and Patron of the Royal Commonwealth Society. The competition regulations have changed over time, but for most of the period covered by the archive, essays were submitted by school children and young adults in three categories according to their age. Category A for those aged sixteen and over, category B for those aged fourteen to sixteen, and category C for those aged less than fourteen years old. New essay topics were assigned for each year, with themes ranging from the light-hearted to serious contemporary social, political and cultural issues, and creative writing was often encouraged
• Various

  Pamphlets - listed as 'poetry' all published materials, no MSS
• [Untitled]
• The swamp dwellers, 1969

  The scripts include the name of the play's writer and often its producer, cast list and rehearsal and transmission dates. RCMS 231/1/12-24 do not have a year date, but were found with scripts dating from the 1960s, and probably originate from the same period
• The detainee, 1965

  The scripts include the name of the play's writer and often its producer, cast list and rehearsal and transmission dates. RCMS 231/1/12-24 do not have a year date, but were found with scripts dating from the 1960s, and probably originate from the same period
• Camwood on the leaves, 1965

  The scripts include the name of the play's writer and often its producer, cast list and rehearsal and transmission dates. RCMS 231/1/12-24 do not have a year date, but were found with scripts dating from the 1960s, and probably originate from the same period
• Press cuttings 1994, 1994

  Guardian Weekly 24/7/1994: 'Listening to the drums of civil war' review of Wole Soyinka autobiography [Overseas Fellow 1986]; THES 25/11/1994: 'Long road to freedom' article on Wole Soyinka; Guardian Weekly 27/11/1994: 'Nigeria spits defiance in the world's face - Wole Soyinka on the regime that has forced him into exile';
• GODS, 1996-06-05

  Correspondence about the dramatic society, mainly about funding. Also includes a report on the performance of "Death and the King;'s Horseman" by Wole Soyinka in Edinburgh.
• Death and the King's Horseman, 1991

  Report on GODS Society production of Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1991, including reviews.
• Portraits: Academics, writers, media figures, 1966 - 1972

  Nigeria - Achebe, C. I.2 - Soyinka, W. I.37
• College Colloquium, 2000

  Papers including biographies of speakers, programme for Chaka, lists of participants, press releases, flyers, registration forms and a series of colour photographs (and some scans). Some photos have been labelled on the back and show Wole Soyinka, Abiola Irele, Tim Cribb, Jacques Chevrier, Alec Broers, Assia Djebar, Anny King, Duio Oni, Niyi Osundare, Henri Lopes, John Boyd, Stephanie Newell, Casimir d'Angelo, Veronique Tadjo, Christiane Fioupou. Irene D'Almeida, Nicola Howells and Ges Houghton.
• Correspondence

  Writers of letters include: Simon Smith, Iain Sinclair, Chris Torrance, Martin Thom, John Temple, Ian Robinson (Oasis Books) And Joseph Simas. A packet of ‘unsorted’ correspondence includes letters from: Tom Ahern, Daisy Aldan, Bruce Andrews, John Barrell, Charles Bernstein, Walter Billeter (of Etymspheres), Nicole Boyer (of Mercure de France), Valya Coe, Angela Livingstone, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Anita Brookner, Fred Buck, Gaetano Castorina, A. H. Chaplin (of the Copyright Receipt Office, British Museum), Robert Christian, Bruce Coward (of the Times Literary Supplement), John Daley, Jacques Darras, Alan Davies, Ken Edwards (of Reality Studios), Michael Edwards, B. Ekern, Clayton Eshleman, Bertrand Espouy (of the Institut Français de Brême), Michael Farley, Leonard Forster, Raymond Foye, K. C. Gay (of the Poetry Collection, Lockwood Memorial Library, Buffalo), Jean Marie Gleize, Jerry Glenn, Paul Green (of Spectacular Diseases), E. Grossmann, Joseph Guglielmi (artist book), Jeremy Harding, Lyn Hejinian (of Tuumba Press), Bernard Hemensley (of Stingy Artist Books), Tone Herbern, Leland Hickman, Brian Merrikin Hill, Sylvester Houédard, Peter Hoy, Peter Jay (of Anvil Press), Claude Royet-Journoud, Emmanuel Hocquard (of the Gazette du Lecteur), Tod Kabza (of Annex), G. Legman (of Kryptádia, the Journal of Erotic Folklore), Edward Lucie-Smith, Colin Fleetwood-Walker, Alexis Lykiard, Gil Ott (of Singing Horse Press), Václav Pinkava, Ian Robinson (of Oasis Books), Merle Ruberg, Anthony Rudolf, Gavin Selerie, John Smith (of the Association of Little Presses), Paul Smith (of Spindrift), Terry Stokes, Herbert Svenkerud, Richard Tabor (of Lobby Press), Nathaniel Tarn (to Uffe Harder), George Tysh, Robert Vas Dias (of the Atlantic Review), Arnaud Villani, Jean Jacques Viton (of Banana Split), Andy Wachtel (of Sesheta Press), Fred Wah, Geoffrey Ward, John Wilkinson, Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Martin Wright.
• Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020)

  Printouts from the online editions of the Jamaica Observer and the Guardian and tributes collated on the Peepal Tree Press website. Brathwaite was born in 1930 in Bridgetown, Barbados. He was educated at Harrison College, before receiving the Barbados Island Scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge. He studied English and History at Pembroke College, receiving his BA in History in 1953, and then a Diploma of Education in 1954. Brathwaite was a well-regarded poet and academic, and one of the major writers in the Caribbean literary canon. He co-founded the Caribbean Artists Movement in London in 1966. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College in 2016. He died in 2020 at the age of 89.
• A Tribute to Ted Hughes' , 1999-09 - 1999-10-21

  Programme for a tribute at the 92nd Street & Tisch Center for the Arts and Unterberg Poetry Center to be held on 11 October 1999. The tributes were by Carolyn Forché, W. S. Merwin, Paul Muldoon, Grace Schulman, Derek Walcott and Irene Worth. Also includes 1 manuscript letter signed from Margaret Croydon to Olwyn Hughes regarding the event dated 21 October 1999.
• Rough sketches out of which the novel began to grow' - Box 1; 'Preliminary drafts' - Box 2

  The Ghost of Memory was first published in London by Faber and Faber Limited in 2006, ISBN 9780571232406. This collection consists of Harris's rough sketches and preliminary drafts in manuscript, together with annotated typed and word-processed drafts and a corrected proof. - Guyanese poet and novelist, Sir Wilson Harris
• Christian Sanderson, by Jackie Kay; with silkscreens by Peter Arkle (1996), 1995-1997

  From the Series: There were 18 Prospero Poets editions, from 1994 to 1997. Most subseries here include papers relating to the individual publication and to the accompanying Clarion Newsletter. Further correspondence involving the designer Dennis Hall and series editor Simon Rae will be found in subseries D1.
• Praise Poems

  1 tape cassette containing praise poetry from Lesotho
• Records from Uganda (Buenas Nuevas recording studios)

  A collection of recordings of humns and scripture readings in East African languages given to the African Studies Centre by Rev. Mark Bishop, CMS missionary in Uganda, 1948-1956. - presented to the Library in April 1985.
• Needs extensive investigation - up to 1700 items...

  Papyrus was the main writing material of the Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic societies in Egypt for 4,000 years before paper took its place. The bulk of historical, linguistic, social and economic evidence of the early Islamic Era can be found on papyrus originally produced in Egypt. The Michaelides fragments comprise the largest private collection of Arabic papyri to be found in any institution worldwide. Cambridge University Library bought the collection in 1977 from the heirs of the antiques dealer Georges Anastase Michaelides (1900-1973). Born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and France, G.A. Michaelides developed a profound interest in the history and life of Egypt from its early civilisations to far beyond the Islamic conquest. At the time of his death he was in possession of over 1,700 fragments of papyri, paper and other materials in the ancient Egyptian languages, Coptic, Greek and predominantly Arabic. This collection comprises personal letters, legal texts, accounts, literary texts, recipes and other documents. Only a small number have been subject to academic study.
• al-Risālah

  Mandinka/Mandingo' book
• al-Qurʼān

  A case containing a quantity of unnumbered and disarranged leaves of the Qurʼān of 11.5 c. square, written in a clumsy African hand with rubrications and primitive ornamentation in colours, each page containing from 9 to 10 lines.