The Poetry and Words tent at the Glastonbury Festival has been taken over by Helen Gregory. Helen has taken charge of Pat's Glastonbury collection - including old posters, flags and other things too.
Rive Gauche is going to be taken over by Rachel Bentham.
Some 120 or so of Pat's Poetry books have been given to the Poetry Library in London. These were books that the Poetry Library had less than two copies of. The rest of the collection was dispersed in a fairly random manner.
Some of Pat's papers and other items were given to the Feminist Archive. Use the link to your right to see a full list of what was given to them. Should you wish to contact the Feminist Archive the materials were given to Helen Lowery, Archivist, Special Collections, University of Bristol. Arts and Social Sciences library. Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TJ. 0117 928 8014. Or there is a website here: Feminist Archive
Update: October 2009. The items that have been placed in the archive have now been added to the catalogue and placed with the rest of the collection. Here is a full list of the items to be found there:
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Pat VT West Boxes
Pat VT West 1938 -2008
Also known as Pat West, Pat van Twest, PVT West, PV Twest
(PVTW)
Please note that all original work by Pat VT West is still
in copyright. It is necessary to contact her executor:
Rohan Van Twest, www.rohanvantwest.com,
rohan@rohanvantwest.com
if wanting to reproduce anything.
Abbreviations used: PVTW: Pat VT West; MS: Monica
Sjöö; BS:
Beverley Skinner.
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Hinkley Point C
File 1 Photo of PVTW in character
Public inquiry papers and proof of evidence documents
1988-9
Notes for presentation
Correspondence with ministers
Misc correspondence
Press cuttings
Papers regarding St Davids and Chernobyl
Greenham
File 2 Cuttings
Newsletter (Jan 1985)
RAF Greenham Common Byelaws 1985
‘Briefing in the Event of an Eviction’ (2pp)
3x photos of banner making
Letter from Tony Benn 24.01.1990
Typescript ‘Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. How It All
Began’ (8pp)
File 3 Typescript ‘Fifteen Poems by Women Inspired
by the Greenham Common Experience’ October 1983 plus
rejection letter from PVTW for contributors
Journals
- ‘Just Women’ No 4 Spring 1988 (with
Hinkley Point C piece). A magazine for Somerset Women
- ‘From the Flames’ Issue 10 Summer 1993 (with Breaking the
Silence/End of Patriarchy, ‘Breaking the Tabu’ by MS) – 2
inserts of colour xeroxes of Monica Sjöö
artwork
- ‘From the Flames’ Issue 14 Winter 1994 (with ‘Seed Wars’
by Monica Sjöö)
- ‘Enough’ (Bristol Women’s Liberation Group) 1972 (with
Monica Sjöö poem
and contribution to piece on abortion, and ‘To Be or Not to
Be’ by Beverley Skinner)
- ‘Enough’ 1970s (with Pat VT West poems, Brenda Skinner
poem and Monica Sjöö on
economic freedom)
Bristol Women’s Liberation Group
File 4 Newsletter March 1972 and
May-June 1973
Misc
File 5 Letter from Margaret Beckett (Labour MP for
Derby South) 25 June 1994 thanking her for support
A4 Nomination for Pat West, Women Who Make a Difference
Award 2001, Bristol City Council
2 A5 fliers on abortion/pro-choice, and Christmas Shopper’s
Creche in Broadmeads, Bristol
Feminist Archive minutes 10 April 1991
Feminist Archive flier
Letter to PVTW from Lori Hill (Feminist Archive), 17
November 1990 re helping at Feminist Archive
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FA/Arch/92
Monica Sjöö (MS)
File 1
Book, New Age and Armageddon. London: The Women’s
Press, 1992; inscribed to PVTW
Book, The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother
of All by MS & Barbara Mor. Trondheim: The Rainbow
Press, 1981, including letter from MS to PVTW 14/04/1982
Typescript (with cover, as in MS archive FA/Arch/85 File
5), ‘The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of
All’ inscribed to Beverly Skinner from MS 1976. Contains
xerox of letter from Barbara Mor to MS 29 August 1976 and
flier ‘Women & Spirituality… for the banished children
of Eve’ nd
Printed newssheet, ‘Women are the Real Left’ by MS, May
1979; half of the publication ‘Wider We. Towards an
Anarchist Politics’ by Keith (Paton) Motherson. Marked
‘This Copy belongs to Beverly Skinner’
Catalogue, ‘Through Space and Time the Ancient Sisterhood
Spoke to Me’ MS Retrospective Bath 2004, including press
release and postcard from MS to PW 7 January 2004
2x private view cards for same 31 January 2004
Catalogue, ‘Windows to Other Worlds’ exhibition by MS and
others, Russia/UK
Exchange art exhibition, Bristol and Cambridge, 31March-21
April and 4 August-12 September 2004. Bad water damage
Private view card for same 02 April 2004
Postcard from MS to PW 06.09 nd re slideshow
Copy of The Guardian (complete) 23 September 2005 including
PVW’s obituary of MS, and xerox of it
2pp email to PVW from Robert White (The Guardian) 04
October 2005 re same
2x xerox of obituary of MS in ‘Northern Earth’ plus
covering note from ‘Angela’
Journal Goddess Alive Issue 8 Autumn/Winter 2005 with
‘Remembering Monica Sjöö’
Folder of notes/versions of eulogy for MS by PVTW, plus
copy of funeral programme
Eulogy by PVTW for Monica Sjöö (3pp)
2x Feminist Archive newsletter Nov 2005 containing MS
obituary by PVTW
Letter to PVTW from Jane Hargreaves (FA) 10 October 2005 re
MS’s death
1p typed comment (by PVTW) on FA Newsletter and its
overemphasis on MS
4pp MS typed notes on diet and help needs while suffering
from cancer
3x article by MS on ‘St Non’s Well, Pembrokeshire’ 1985
A4 print of Avebury Stone Avenue by MS 1992
Programme for The Divine Ancestress (gathering) 25-31
October 2004 Bath (featuring MS)
Envelope from Goddessing newssheet (Florida) containing
letter to PVTW 28 September 2004, 1 x Goddessing Issue 18
2003 containing MS images, article and prayers, 2x
Goddessing Issue 19 Winter/Spring 2004-5 containing MS
articles/prayers
Beverly Skinner (BS)
File 2 Correspondence re BS papers/art/death
(including an appreciation by PVTW)
Lists of books, art and exhibitions
Correspondence: letter to MS 02 September 1989, letter from
PVTW 14 December 1993, Christmas card to PVTW 1995, post
card from Lynda to PVTW 14 January 1999 with poem (for
‘Beverly’)
Article, ‘Cancer and Civilization’ by R.A. Holman (Mother
Earth, Jan 1962)
Cutting (Daily - Telegraph, nd) ‘Cancer of the Breast comes
in Three Types’
Catalogue, Woman Magic 1985 in Swedish (featuring BS, MS
& others)
Typed publication ‘Artists Connected with the Women’s
Liberation Movement’ including BS & MS writings 1971
Waterdamaged typescript ‘To Be or Not to Be?’ by BA 07
November 1978 ill.
Envelope of cuttings relating to her manuscript and the
Theosophical Society
Autobiographical pages, artwork (original, xeroxed and
photos) and poetry (many pages total)
(NB some BS material
clearly migrated to other folders e.g. MS printed items
& Sistershow papers qv)
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Performances
Sistershow 1973
File 1 Envelope of items in
bubblewrap marked ‘Items taken from the Sistershow Hat
(used in Sistershow poster & Pat/Jackie)’. Bride and
groom figurines, Minnie Mouse figurine
File 2 Envelope of 8 b/w photos of PVTW and Jackie
Thrupp in Sistershow (wearing the hat) Xeroxes (4pp) of
programme and review of Sistershow
Notes (11pp)
Correspondence (1p)
Prints of photos (3pp)
Reviews (2pp & 1 typed)
BBC form (1p)
Typescript of ‘Miss Women’s Lib’ (3pp)
‘Addenda’ article re demise of Sistershow
Sistershow badge
Loose:2 x reel to reel tapes: 1 marked ‘Van Twest Bassey
24.3.74’, writing on the other faded
A Woman Imprisoned 1991
File 3 Book, Hellens: The Story
of a Herefordshire Manor by Malcolm Munthe. Pennington
Mellor Charitable Trust, 1991. Inserts: 1 postcard & 2
fliers for the manor. Hetty Walwyn 1670-1721, was
imprisoned in Hellens House from 1686. PVTW performed a
piece called ‘A woman imprisoned’ in 1991, alluding to this
event.
Envelope of 7 colour photos of performance/set
Envelope of 8 colour and 2 b/w photos of same
Letter to PVTW from Ledbury Poetry Festival 12 December
2000 rejecting proposal for festival
2x text on an overhead transparency
‘Diary’ made for ‘A Woman Imprisoned’
Flier mounted on card for same
Min Ironing 2000
Loose:2 audiotapes, ‘La Bohème’ and ‘Argos’ each C90
VHS 60 min tape showing performance by PVTW as her own
mother (as in photos below)
File 4 mockups & fliers for Front Room, First
Lower Totterdown Art Trail 9-11.11.2000
File 5 Envelope of 15 colour photos mainly from
performance and negatives (is this Min Ironing?)
Envelope of 27 colour photos, negs and CD 16 November 2001
Min Ironing
mockups and fliers
notes and cuttings
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FA/Arch/94
Poetry
Loose sheets and in books
- CD, PVT ‘Poems of Hard-Won Womanly Wisdom & Waspish
Wit’ 2004
- What She Also Did Was… Poems About Our Mothers
ed. Pat V.T. West and Gill Hague. Bristol: Rive Gauche,
2008
- One Foot on the Mountain: an Anthology of
British Feminist Poetry 1969-1979 ed. Lilian Mohin
(includes PW). London: Onlywomen Press Ltd, 1979
- Women Poets writing and performing in Bristol in the
1990s ed PVT West, S.J. Allen & Gill Hague.
Bristol: Rive Gauche, 1997
- Tides and Moons by PVT West, 1996
- The Dinner Lady and Other Women. Bristol Women’s
Writers’ Worskhops, nd
- Rumours of Another Sky by Pat VT West, Liz
Loxley & Kathleen Jones. Bristol, 1987
- Riff Poets. Dennis Gould, Jeff Cloves & PVT
West. Stroud: Ourside, 2003
- Gosh! Aren’t They Good… U3A Poetry Writing Group
Selected Poems 2002-2004 ed. Gillian Penrose & Pat
VT West. Bristol, 2000
File 1 ‘Poems’ typescripts of poems (118 pp) with
3pp contents c.1996
File 2 Report by Pat West (writer in Residence/Arts
Worker (Creative Writing Project 1998) for Women) for South
Gloucestershire Women’s Forum November 1998
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FA/Arch/95
Banner
‘Bristol Greenham Women are here there and
everywhere.’
Textile banner with blue background and coloured textile
letters, also showing the moon and sun, with people
dancing, and ‘glow in the dark’ plastic stars attached.
Dimensions 202 cm x 140 cm
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Poster Roll
Rolled posters
- b/w print, God Giving Birth by Monica Sjöö
- pink print, The Goddess at Avebury/Silbury by Monica
Sjöö
- red print, In the Beginning There was Darkness There was
Darkness There was Darkness and the Sea and the Night and
the Sea and the Night Were the Mother. Out of Her Mighty
Womb was Created the All… by MS, inscribed ‘To Pat from
Monica 1/6/79’
- 2 colour poster, All Women are Reaching Out to Learn to
Listen. All the Women of the World. Oxfam, Development
Poster No 3
- colour poster, Sisterhood is Powerful
- b/w poster, Magical Fairy Queen Moon Goddess of Life,
Death and Rebirth/Immortality. Full Moon July 1985 by
Monica Sjöö
- colour poster, A Room of One’s Own ad. Patrick Garland 28
January 1991, starring Eileen Atkins as Virginia Woolf.
- 2x b/w poster from FAN Vol 3 No 2 ‘The Advantages of
Being a Woman Artist’ (Guerrilla Girls)
- poster, Women Constitute Half the World’s Population…’ UN
Conference on Women Copenhagen Summer 1980. Designed by
Sarah Braun
- poster, National Theatre Cottesloe One Woman Plays by
Dario Fo & Franca Rame 1982 (b/w image, colour text),
starring Yvonne Bryceland