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- 1967 - 1995 (Creation)
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Notices of events (literary, non-academic) not directly involving Mottram, including: 'Poetry in motion' promotional booklet, including pages on Tom Pickard and Jeff Muttall, 1967; invitation, Aug 1968 to attend a celebration of new publications by Lucy and Richard Kostelanetz; duplicated circular letter, 28 Oct 1969, from Jim Haynes of the Arts Laboratory, serving as a newsletter; manuscript letter, 29 Apr 1969 from James Greene, inviting Mottram to a party at Kingsley Hall 'self-governing community'; spirit duplicator notice for performance of 'The Pyramid ... a multi-media extravanganza', Ravenna High School and Brown Junior High School, Ohio, 26-27 Sep 1970; invitation, Nov 1971 to view work by Michael Ginsborg, Derek Jarman and Peter Logan, with readings, at Bankside, London; duplicated newsletter sheet from Jim Haynes, 1971, with added manuscript note to Mottram, seeking co-operation in tape cassette project; Allington Castle, Maidstone, brochure of events, 1972, with typescript letter from Robert Coover inviting Mottram to Stanley Elkin reading; notice of talk by Paolo Soleri 'on arcology' at American Embassy Auditorium, 13 Nov 1972, with sheet of 'Program notes'; stick of edible rock promoting exhibition of concrete poetry at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1972, in original wrapper and postal tube; invitation to book signing and reading by Bobbie Louise Hawkins at Turret Bookshop (Bernard Stone), 1986; notice of benefit reading for Talus, 23 Oct (1987), at Kentish Town; notice of reading by Elaine Randell and Ken Edwards at Rasp (London), 3 Apr 1987, printing a short poem by each author; invitation to attend launch of North & South anthology on Louis Zukofsky, 2 Nov 1988; flyers for readings by Allen Fisher at Subvoicive, 21 Jun 1988, and by Frances Presley and Elaine Randell, undated; flyer for Writers Forum celebrating 25 years of publishing, 11 Jun 1988, with card noting reading by Hazel Smith at Subvoicive, 7 Jun; report of '25 years of writing' event, Essex University, 1990; notice of 'Devil's chaffeur' events, New York, 1991; publicity and booking form for 1991 Poets & Small Press Convention in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; brochure of Museum of the Moving Image, 1993, listing events celebrating Georges Méliès; brochure of small press exhibition at South Bank, Interaction & overlap, 1994, with separate list of exhibits, receipt for books purchased, and sample of publisher's wrapping paper; notice of book signings and readings at Bernard Stone's Turret Bookshop, London, April 1994, with brochure on the Spanish Arts Festival, London, Apr 1994; notice of 'workfortheeyetodo' exhibition, West Ferry, London, 1994; invitation to view work by Bill Culbert and Simon Cutts, Oct 1994 ; notice of Fourth Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, 22-24 Apr 1994, New Year card, 1995, celebrating 'Sound & Language' (Cris Cheek, Sianed Jones, Osian Tam); notice of book-launch, Stress management (Boldface Press) by Tony Lopez at Compendium Bookshop, London, 19 Jan 1995; notice of ALP (Association of Little Presses) bookfair at Hampstead, 15 Jan 1995; undated notice of series of readings titled, 'Voices at Curfew' i.e. 'exiled and banned artists from three continents'; series of flyers for Writers Forum workshops; invitation to booklaunch, The red fez: art and spirit possession in Africa by Fritz Kramer, at Compendium Bookshop, London, undated; flyers for Sub Voicive readings series in London, including undated notices of reading by Adrian Clarke, James Sherry and David Bromige, and 'Predictions for the Nineties' (Cris Cheek); photograph of event ('surgical séance') featuring Iain Sinclair, with Mottram, Allen Fisher and Paul Brown also visible, undated