Literary Papers and Correspondence of Rodney Pybus
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Literary Papers and Correspondence of Rodney Pybus
Classmark: BC MS 20c Pybus/A
Creator(s): Pybus, Rodney (1938-)
Date(s): 1950-2001
Language: English
Size and medium: 19 boxes; manuscripts, typescripts and printed material.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43008
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
The Literary Papers and Correspondence of Rodney Pybus held in Leeds University Library comprises 19 boxes of papers relating to Pybus’s poetry collections, translations and other writing, and to his involvement with the literary magazine Stand. In addition to files of poem drafts and work in progress, there are 13 poetry notebooks; drafts for articles and broadcasts on contemporary poetry and fiction; papers relating to Stand magazine, focussing mainly on business affairs and including Stand-related papers from Stand Magazine Support Trust director Philip Bomford; and correspondence with publishers Chatto & Windus and Carcanet, and with Jon Silkin, Lorna Tracy and others. This collection was purchased from the author in 2004.
Biography or history
The poet, author and broadcaster Rodney Pybus was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1938. After studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he worked in the 1960s and 1970s in the north-east of England as a newspaper journalist and television writer and producer, specialising in documentary films and arts and education programmes. He was a lecturer in Mass Communication at Macquarie University, Sydney, from 1976 to 1979. On his return to the UK, he spent several years as literature officer for Cumbria, before moving to Suffolk in 1983. He has won a number of awards for his poetry, including the Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for his first collection, In Memoriam Milena (1973); and has held various writing fellowships and residencies during his career through the Arts Council and other organizations. He has also been associated with the literary magazine Stand, both as a contributor and editor, since the mid-1960s.
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