Includes correspondence relating to permissions, the purchase of cover art work and clean copy typescripts of individual poems.

Consists of correspondence between Neil Astley and the contributors, including postcards, notes about the publication, style sheets and collated typescripts.

File of editorial correspondence relating to production. Includes correspondence between BBC North East and Michael Chaplin concerning the adaptation of the theatre play Hair in the Gate, drafts of the script for the radio play, and an agreement relating to the commissioning of the play.

File of editorial correspondence relating to production. Includes correspondence between BBC North East and Michael Chaplin concerning drafts of the script, and an agreement relating to the commissioning of the play.

Consists of editorial correspondence between John Agard and Neil Astley as well as a photocopy of illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura. Also includes a mock-up of the jacket cover for 'From the Devil's Pulpit' with annotations and highlights.

Consists of correspondence regarding the publication, particularly with the literary agent.

File of editorial correspondence, primarily email print outs, and research in the form of email print outs, web print outs and press cuttings.

Consists of correspondence between Neil Astley and Helen Dunmore regarding order changes, the blurb, cover artwork, payment and royalties, corrections and contractual details. There is also a letter from Helen Dunmore to Neil Astley with prose poems attached by Mary Ann Hushlak. Also included is a printout of a selection of poems, a delivery note, a postcard from the Science Photo Library and a slide from the Science Photo Library which is the image used for the cover artwork.

Notes and email print outs relating to an outline drafted by Michael Chaplin for a Hogmanay special.