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Christopher Levenson fonds. 9th accrual. 1959-2017; predominant 2010-2017.

Series 1
Poetry – 2015-2017. – 5 cm of textual records.

Box 29
Collected Poems Vol. 14, 2015-2017.
F.1          Poems 1-34.
F.2          Poems 35-55.

Night Vision, 2014.
F.3          Final typescript.

A Tattered Coat Upon a Stick, 2017.
F.4          Text and Correspondence with Quattro

Series 2
Other writing. – c. 1959-2017. – 2 cm of textual records.

Box 29
F.5          Reviews – arranged by author, except for those reviews published in Gemini.
List of reviews c.1959-63.
Bowering, Marilyn (filed under Musgrave)
Butter, P. H. (filed under Muir)
Christmas in Africa
Cohen, Leonard (filed under Waddington)
Crosbie, Lynn
di Michele, Mary (filed under Crosbie)
Durrell, Lawrence.
Geddes, Gary.
Gemini, no. 5, 1958. Includes numerous reviews.
Goldstein, Slavko
The Guinness Book of Poetry.
Heath-Stubbs, John (filed under Guinness)
Jacobs, Danny
Klassen, Sarah
Lagerqvist, Pär
Lane, Patrick.
Lane, Travis M.
Lee, Dennis (plus an additional review filed under Crosbie)
Lowther, Pat
MacCaig, Norman
Mandel, Eli
McCartney, Sharon (filed under Jacobs)
Modern Stories from Holland and Flanders.
Muir, Edwin
Musgrave, Susan
New Lines
Ország-Land, Thomas.
Partridge, Elise
Pearson, Miranda (filed under Partridge)
Ruzesky, Jay (filed under Wilson)
Sarah, Robyn (filed under Partridge)
Selig, Richard.
Spirits of the Age.
Stanhope, Rosamund (filed under Guinness)
Taj, H. Masud
Taylor, Rob.
Tregebov, Rhea (filed under Jacobs)
Waddington, Miriam
Wilson, Paul

F.6          Iowa Defender. Includes “Time and Again” by Christopher Levenson. 11 Dec. 1967.
F.7          Here be monsters. Farwell speech at St. Petersburg. Includes correspondence. 2002.
F.8          Readings and event programs etc.

Series 3
Correspondence. – 2010-2017. – 16 cm of textual records.

Literary Correspondence
Box 29
F.9          A – Literary Correspondence
Aansi
Abley, Mark
Anvil
Ashby-Rolls

F.10        B – Literary Correspondence
Ballard, Pandora (Tri-City Wordsmiths)
BC Book Prizes Board
Besner, Neil
Black Moss Press (Marty Gervais)
Bloomer, Yvonne
Bloodaxe Books
Brandt, Di (Rhubarb)
Briesmaster, Allan
Buschek

F.11        C – Literary Correspondence
CAANS/ACAEN AGM
Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs (CCWWP)
Capilano
Coles, Don
Clark, Heath (re Sylvia Plath)
Cluysenaar, Anne (Scintilla)
Vancouver Courier

F.12        D – Literary Correspondence
Dallaire, Michael
Denman Literary Festival
De Jaeger, Claire
Derry, Alice
Dharker, Imtiaz
Donland, John
Duff, Holly

F.13        E – Literary Correspondence
Event (Wasserman, Susan)

F.14        F – Literary Correspondence
Fenlon, Rachel
Flood, Cynthia
Fraser, David
Freedom to Read Award Jury

F.15        G – Literary Correspondence
Getting to Know You
Globe & Mail
Governor General’s Literary Awards
Granta

F.16        H – Literary Correspondence
Harbour Publishing
Harcourt, Joan (Queen’s UP)
Hay, Elizabeth
Henighan, Tom
Hopkins, Tina
Huntley, Mike

F.17        I – Literary Correspondence
Indian High Commission
Iqbal, Muhammad
Irani, Anosh

F.18        J – Literary Correspondence
Jewish Currents
Johnston, Sean

F.19        K – Literary Correspondence
Kaszuba, Sophia (Contemporary Canadian Poets website UofT)
Kerrisdale Community Centre
Klonsky, Ken

F.20        L – Literary Correspondence
Lakoseljac, Bianca
Lam, Fiona Tinwei
Langara
Lee, Dennis
Lepage, Robert
Literary Press Group
Louann, Franci
Lucas, John

F.21        M – Literary Correspondence
Macarty, Jami
The Malahat Review
Mathur, Ashok
McGill-Queen’s University Press
McKay, Sheryl (CBC)
Medlicott, Michele (Helene Rosenthal)
Mother Tongue Poetry Group
Murray, Joyce, MP

F.22        N – Literary Correspondence
Nish, Bonnie (Pandora/Warren Fulton)
NDP/Green Party

Box 30
F.1          P – Literary Correspondence
Palimpsest
Pandora Litterary Awards
Partridge, Elise
Paull, Shauna (Fowler)
Peeradina, Saleem
Perry, C. (re Night Vision)
Poetic Justice
Poetry Reading
Point No Point (re Bhatt)
Prahms, Wendy
Public Lending Right

F.2          Q – Literary Correspondence
Quattro Books

F.3          R – Literary Correspondence
Rao, Sirish (Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver)
Renes, Laura
Renzetti, Elizabeth
Richler, Noah
Robinson, Sal (Peter Weiss)
Ronsdale Press
Rosenberg, Carl
Ryan, Ellen
Ryga (Sean Johnston)

F.4          S – Literary Correspondence
Saklikar, Renee (SFU Lunch)
Sherlock, Tracy (Vancouver Sun)
Shidmehr, Nilofar
Simonds (TWUC)
Staines, David
Starnino, Carmine
Steinberg, Peter (Plath)
Struthers, Betsy
Stubbs, Sally
Sutina, Chou
Svendsen, Linda

F.5          T – Literary Correspondence
Taj, H. Masud
Taylor, Rob
Thayil, Jeet
Thornton, Russell
Translation Panel (TWUC AGM 2012)
Tree, Reading Series
Toronto Star
Tyler, Paul

F.6          U – Literary Correspondence
Unitarian Church of Vancouver

F.7          V – Literary Correspondence
Vallum
Van Arragon, Willian
Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Public Library
Vancouver Writers Fest (Hal Wake)
Viswanathan, Padma

F.8          W – Literary Correspondence
Wente, Margaret
West Coast Chamber Music
Wilbur, Richard
Williams, Kuluk
Woods, Rowena (Rowena Woods-Leblanc)
Wordsmiths (Ballard)
Writers’ Union of Canada

F.9          Z – Literary Correspondence
Zieroth, David
Zuiderent, Ad

Personal Correspondence
Box 30

F.10        A – Personal Correspondence
Adams, Sylvia
Allan, Janet
Allan, Robin

F.11        B – Personal Correspondence
Bailey, Hilary
Barratt, Glynn
Barot, Sonal (re Gunvant Shah)
Bhandari, Jane
Bouman, Arnout
Berry, Paul
Bridges, Bill

F.12        C – Personal Correspondence
Cockburn, Jenny
Corat, Tahsin
Craig, David
Cameron, Brian
Chariandy, David
Conn, Jan

F.13        D – Personal Correspondence
de Meijer, Sadiqa
Derry, Alice
Davison, Allan
Dejaeger, Claire
Dillon, Wilson

F.14        E – Personal Correspondence
Ellis, Penny
Egan, Susanna
Epperson, Steven
Ellis-Jones, Barry

F.15        F – Personal Correspondence
Félix, Benoît Felix, Benoit
Fenlon, Rachel
Fink, Howard
Flood, Cynthia [Sinnett]
Fisk, Robert
Fisher, Roy

F.16        G – Personal Correspondence
Galley, Catherine
Geeson, Brian
Gillmor, Alan
Goetz-Stankiewicz, Marketa
Graff, Tom
Geddes, Gary
Giardini, Anne

F.17        H – Personal Correspondence
Hamburger, Anne
Hubank, Roger
Harvey, Martha
Hay, Elizabeth

F.18        I – Personal Correspondence
Iqbal, Muhammad (re Hari Sharma)

F.19        J – Personal Correspondence
Jackson, Geoffrey
Jackson, Mecki

F.10        K – Personal Correspondence
Kielinger, Thomas
Klonsky, Ken

F.21        L – Personal Correspondence
Lepage, Robert
Levenson (General Christmas letters)

F.22        M – Personal Correspondence
Malik, Tariq
Mayer, Gerda
McNamara, Eugene
Mercure, Julien
Muschel, Anne-Marie

F.23        N – Personal Correspondence
Naiman, Joanne
Namer, Dina
Nicholls, Brian

F.24        O – Personal Correspondence
Obraztsova, Nina

F.25        P – Personal Correspondence
Page, Malcolm
Palmer, Vaughan
Patel, Gieve
Patrakis, Barbara
Pazira, Nelofer
Peeradina, Saleem
Power, Tony

F.26        R – Personal Correspondence
Rogers, Su [John Bell]
Rosenberg, Carl
Roth, Martha

F.27        S – Personal Correspondence
Safdie, Moshe
Sharma, Hari
Sherman, Ken
Shields, Don
Sinnett, Dean (Flood)
Shivdasani, Menka
Simison, Greg
Skoutajan, Hann
Smith, Anthony
Stout, Susan

F.28        T – Personal Correspondence
Taj, H. Masud [Arc]
Taj, Noah
Tempo (CBC)
Thurston, Harry
Tolley, Trevor

F.29        V – Personal Correspondence
Vancouver Opera
Verkruisen, Niek
Voiceprint

F.30        W – Personal Correspondence
Wilson, Keith
Wiseman, Chris


Series 4
Correspondence with and Mss by South Asian Poets writing in English. – 3 cm.

Box 30
F.31        Part 1
D’Souza, Charmayne
Ali, Asha Shahid
Bhatla, Sanjiv
Daruwalla, Keki
Davidar, David
Rooke, Leon
Katrak, Ketu

F.32        Part 2
Mahapatra, Jayanta
Moraes, Dom and Leela
Nambisan, Vijay
Narasimhaiah, C.D.
Patel, Gieve
Peeradina, Saleem
Ramaiya, Nita
Kudchedkar
Rao, Raj
Des Pardes


Series 5
Audio recordings. – 10 audio cassettes.

Box 31
1. Interview with Gary Hayes, re: Requiem ’53. CBC Ottawa, 2 May 2003.
2. Interview with Philip Hobsbaum. 26 October 1982.
3. Interview with Mac Caig, sides 1/2.
4. Interview with Mac Caig, sides 3/4.
5. Interview with Anthony Thwaite.
6. Lala Koehn, Interview for ARC.tg
7. Brock.
8. Chris Levenson reading his poetry.
9. Reconcilable Differences. CKCU FM. 2 December 1994.
10. Sparks Two. Levenson interview and “Long Poem”, 13/20 April.

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