Colpitts Poetry Readings Archive

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Introduction

	Colpitts Poetry Reading Group
	Contents
	Arrangement
	Bibliography

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Catalogue

• Administrative and correspondence files
• Photographs and Negatives

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Colpitts Poetry Reading Group

Colpitts Poetry was established in 1975 by Ric Caddel to bring a wide variety of contemporary poets to Durham to read and discuss their own work. It took its name from its original meeting-place, the Colpitts Hotel, a small pub in Hawthorn Terrace, Durham, and continues to use the same name although over the years the venue has varied.

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Contents

The archive contains files of correspondence, accounts, committee minutes, programmes, posters and other publicity. Complied together with a large collection of black and white photographs, as well as negatives taken by David James at the readings. There are no recordings among the deposited material. The readers have included a diverse mix of both well-established and some less well-known writers, and the archive provides quite an extensive photographic record of contemporary British poets, and some Irish and American.

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Accession details

Presented by Colpitts Poetry, 1989, with the intention that further additions will be made from time to time

Conditions of access

Open for consultation

Copyright and copying

Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Sub-Librarian, Special Collections (e-mail PG.Library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.

Arrangement

The administrative and correspondence files are listed as CPR/A-P, with all photographs and negatives listed in date order under CPR/Q

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Appraisal

Duplicates weeded during the cataloguing process

Accruals

Accruals possible

Technical requirements

Light box for negatives

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Finding aids

Sheaf catalogue of negatives between 1975-1980 (kept in box with CPR/P)

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Bibliography

Blog by son of Colpitts Poetry photographer, David James, at http://poetsinalens.blogspot.co.uk/

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Catalogue

Administrative and correspondence files
Reference: CPR/A-P
Dates of creation: 1975-1990
Extent: 1/3 metre


Photographs and Negatives
Reference: CPR/Q
Dates of creation: 1969-1990
Extent: 1/3 metre (plus additional box of duplicates)
Photographs taken, in black and white, by David James of Gateshead