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Stevens, Peter, 1927- Peter Stevens fonds. -- 1950-2001. -- 4.6 m of textual records. --
9 photographs: b&w. Peter Stevens was born in Manchester, England and graduated in English
and Education from the University of Nottingham with a B.A. in 1951.
He came to Canada in 1957 and taught at a private school and at McMaster
University while working on his M.A. From 1964 to 1968 he taught at
the University of Saskatchewan and received a doctorate in Canadian
literature in 1968. His thesis led eventually to the publication of
The McGill Movement (1968), and to the editing of Raymond Knister's
The First Day of Spring and Other Stories (1976). He has served
as contributing editor to The Ontario Review (1973-8) and poetry
editor of The Canadian Forum (1968-73). He was founding director
of Sesame Press in Windsor. His first collection of poems, Nothing
but Spoons, was published in 1969. Stevens was a regular contributor
to the CBC's Jazz Radio Canada series in the 1970s. He has also been
a jazz columnist for the Windsor Star. His poems have appeared
in numerous anthologies and in magazines. He is also the author of several
plays, three of which received performances in Detroit, Windsor and
Vancouver in 1980. His most recent collection of poetry is States
of Mind (2001). There have been two accruals: The first accrual (36-1997) is arranged
into three series: manuscripts of published and unpublished works and
research material; correspondence; restricted material. The second accrual
(01-2002) is arranged into three series: manuscripts of published and
unpubished works; book reviews, music reviews and other correspondence. Title based on contents of the fonds.
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