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Total number of records: 15
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Travelling Songs
2000-2002
Papers relating to Simon Armitage’s short poetry collection Travelling Songs, published by Faber and Faber in 2001. A copy of Nigel Morgan’s score for three poems from Travelling Songs, produced a...
Guide to Song
2003
Material relating to 'Guide to Song' a three part radio programme originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003. The file contains manuscript notes, typescript copies of song lyrics with occaisiona...
Page Proofs
2001-2002
Two sets of page proofs for Travelling Songs. The first set includes Simon Armitage’s corrections in blue ink; the second set is a copy of the first, without corrections. Held with the proofs is a c...
Poems
2001-2002
Typescript drafts and copies of poems published in Travelling Songs. Includes an annotated draft and clean copy of the sequence ‘Travelling Songs’; 2 ts copies of ‘The Following Directions’ (o...
Draft Collection
2001
Typescript draft of The Universal Home Doctor accompanied by a cc ts letter from Simon Armitage to “Paul” at Faber and Faber (2 July 2001). The draft includes an ms list of contents/poems for incl...
Drinking for England
1998
Ts copies of verse/script (10 ff; on yellow paper) by Simon Armitage for the BBC2 documentary Drinking for England. The programme was made by Century Films, and broadcast as part of the Modern Times s...
Baltic Live!
2002
Papers relating to the performance and recording of Simon Armitage’s "song cycle”, ‘A Tree Full of Monkeys’. The cycle was performed by Armitage with music by zoviet*france at an event to cele...
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Commissions
2002-2003
Papers relating to commissions by Simon Armitage for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The first commission was a poem for the opening of the new Visitor’s Centre in 2002. The papers include 2 fax and...
Notebook 13
c.2002-2004
Bound A5 notebook with brown cover. Includes notes on plays/short films (?) for review/competition (?); notes, plans and drafts towards Pornography: The Musical (Century Films production for Channel 4...
Notebook 8
c.1995-1997
Bound A4 notebook with black cover. Only the first 22 leaves at the front and the last 10 leaves at the back and back free endpaper have been used. From the front, the notebook contains drafts of poem...
Notebook 10
c.1996-2000
Bound A5 notebook with black cover and gold pattern. Contains "diary” entry for 27 December 1996, published as part of ‘Over the Top to Lancashire’ in All Points North (1998); drafts of poems pu...
Notebook 11
c.1996-2001
Bound A4 notebook with black cover and red spine. Contains planning notes and drafts towards the documentary Saturday Night (Century Films/BBC2 April 1996); list of prose and drama by Armitage headed ...