JOHNSON, Bryan Stanley William (1933-1973)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP51
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: JOHNSON, Bryan Stanley William (1933-1973)
Date(s)	: Created 1963-1973
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s)	: Johnson | Bryan Stanley William | 1933-1973 | poet | playwright | director

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1933; student of English at King's College London; Poetry Editor, Transatlantic Review, 1965-1973; director and writer of cinema films including You're human like the rest of them, 1967 (Grand Prix, Tours, 1968; Grand Prix, Melbourne, 1968), Up yours too, Guillaume Apollinaire!, 1968, and Paradigm, 1969; director and writer of nine television documentaries; theatre director, including Backwards and The ramp at the Mermaid Theatre, London, 1970; playwright, including Entry on BBC radio, 1965, BSJ v God at the Basement Theatre, Soho, London, 1971, and Not counting the savages on BBC TV, 1971; Chairman Greater London Arts Association Literature Panel, 1973; died 1973.

Publications: editor of London consequences (Greater London Arts Association for the Festivals of London, London, 1972) with Margaret Drabble; Albert Angelo (Constable, London, 1964); editor of All bull: the National Servicemen (Quartet Books, London, 1973); Aren't you rather young to be writing your memoirs? (Hutchinson, London, 1973); Christie Malry's own double entry (Collins, London, 1973); Everybody knows somebody who's dead (Covent Garden Press, London, 1973); House Mother normal: a geriatric comedy (Collins, London, 1971); Poems (Constable, London, 1964); Poems two (Trigram Press, London, 1972); Statement against corpses (Constable, London, 1964) with Zulfikar Ghose; text of Street children (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1964) with photographs by Julia Trevelyan Oman; The evacuees (Victor Gollancz, London, 1968); The unfortunates (Panther, London, 1969); Travelling people (Constable, London, 1964); See the old lady decently (Hutchinson, London, 1975); Trawl (Secker and Warburg, London, 1966); Gavin Ewart, Zulfikar Ghose, B. S. Johnson: Penguin Modern Poets No. 25 (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1975).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence, 1968-1973, relating to Johnson's work as Poetry Editor of Transatlantic Review, and English translations by Johnson and Ned Thomas of Welsh language poems by David Gwenallt Jones; typescript of Travelling people, 1963. First edition copies of House Mother normal: a geriatric comedy (Collins, London, 1971), Travelling people (Constable, London, 1964), and The unfortunates (Panther, London, 1969).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

2 files, 4 books

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Travelling people was purchased by King's College London library. The remainder of the collection was purchased from Colin Huggett in 1996.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Drafts for Poems two (Trigram Press, London, 1972) are held at the British Library, London.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2000