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- 1975 - 1985 (Creation)
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Mottram's own response to problems with The Poetry Review and The Poetry Society:red typescript essay with manuscript additions, headed 'Imagination and invention in contemporary British poetry', for The Cambridge Poetry Festival, 20 Apr 1975; typescript carbon of essay opening 'With this issue, the fifteenth under the present editor...', referring to The Poetry Review 66/1 (1975); manuscript notes for essays and list of contributors to The Poetry Review; letter from Michelene Victor of Time Out 4 Nov 1975, in response to criticism from Mottram; Mottram manuscript draft statement, probably of 1976 or 1977, on his aims as editor of The Poetry Review; typescript letter of 23 Dec 1976 from Roger Guedalla, as Honorary Treasurer of The Poetry Society, to Mottram, with copy of Mottram's typescript response of 4 Jan 1977; Mottram manuscript notes in response to criticisms; manuscript draft essay headed 'The poetry issues', and a second manuscript draft essay opening 'The usual American estimate of British poetry today...', with newspaper cuttings, 1976, about The Poetry Society's conflict with the Arts Council of Great Britain; Mottram typescript essay headed 'The Poetry Society'; typescript letter of 29 Dec 1977 from Robert Vas Dias, General Secretary of The Poetry Society, defending himself against criticism from Mottram; newspaper cuttings, 1977-1978, relating to Peter Porter, Ian Hamilton, Craig Raine, Gavin Ewart, and article from Time Out 17-23 Jun 1977 by Matthew Hoffman on the Arts Council of Great Britain; sympathetic typescript response of 6 Oct 1978 from Martin Bax of Ambit magazine to Mottram's account of events; typescript carbon of Mottram essay 'Editing The Poetry Review', printed in Poetry Information, 20-21 (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1979-1980)