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Correspondence : miscellaneous

Correspondents include Margaret Watson, Philip Grover, Daniel Wells, David O'Meara, Jay Ruzesky, Margaret Cook, Robyn Sarah, Rita Donovan, John Wing, Michael Hulse, Gustav Richar, Aubrey Schwartz, Mike Trussler, and others.

Correspondence : miscellaneous

Correspondents include John Metcalf, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Al Purdy, Pat Jaspers, Derk Wynand, Margaret Watson, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Michael Hulse, Philip Grover, Stephanie Bolster, Ann Finlayson, Barbara Nickel, Tim Bowling, Val Ross and others.

Correspondence : recent

Correspondents include Michael Hulse, Rita Donovan, Gustav Richar, Tomas Transtromer, Dennis Lee, Diane Martin, Robyn Sarah, Mary Anne McLeod, Tim Bowling, and others.

Correspondence about writing

File includes a letter from Al Purdy concerning his regard for Don Coles' poetry, and Purdy's relationship with Norman Levine and Dennis Lee.

Correspondence files

The series consists of personal and professional correspondence including manuscript and typescript copies of letters as well as e-mail received by Coles. It also includes many copies of letters or e-mails written by Coles himself. The series includes family correspondence as well as correspondence with writers such as Christopher Wiseman, Liliane Welch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Al Purdy, P.K. Page, Steven Heighton, Ralph Gustafson, Adele Wiseman, John Metcalf, David O'Meara, Robyn Sarah, Jan Ruzesky, Betty Jane Wylie, Robert Fulford, Carol Shields, Philip Grover and Tomas Transtromer among others.

Correspondence with colleagues

File includes correspondence with Liliane Welch, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Le Pon, Elisabeth Harver, Inge Israel, Rita Donovan, Janice Kulyk-Keefer, David Knight, Dennis Lee with drafts, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Caroline Adderson, Charles, Ritchie, Glen Sorestad, Al Purdy (with signed poems to Coles), Betty Jane Wylie, P.K. Page (Exeter stationery), Steve Heighton, Susan Glickman, Lloyd Nelson, Bruce Hunter, Christopher Wiseman, Moira Cook, Carolyn Smart, Ray Filip, Ralph Gustafson (and Betty), Northrop Frye.

Course syllabi

File consists of syllabi for courses taught by Coles at York University, including Humanities 398, “Early times: literature and the imagination of the child” (1975-1976); Humanities 3140.03, “The creative process: writing in the early 20th century” (1992-1993); Humanities 4620.03, “Works and days: writers on their art and their lives” (1993-1994, 1996-1997).

Don Coles fonds

  • F0125
  • Fonds
  • 1934-2016

Fonds consists of personal and professional correspondence including correspondence with fellow writers such as John Metcalf, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Robyn Sarah, Adele Wiseman and Ralph Gustafson among others, academic and teaching files that document his career as a student at the University of Toronto and Cambridge and professorial files for courses taught at York University. It also includes editorial files that document his work with fellow poets at The Banff Centre for the Fine Arts and writing files including notes, drafts and manuscripts related to his own publications. Accession 2011-032 includes correspondence from Northrop Frye giving Coles advice about an academic career, book reviews written by Coles for "The Globe and mail" from the 1970s to 2001, seminar notes for the Humanities course, "Works & days," reviews of his writing, and drafts of the book of poetry, "Where we might have been" (2010).

Coles, Don

Editorial files

Series consists of material that documents Coles work as a literary editor and critic and includes contracts, correspondence, course timetables, critiques of students' work and other material that documents his tenure as poetry editor of "The May Studio" at the Banff Centre for the Fine Arts. It also includes drafts of works by other writers sent to Coles for his comments and criticism including manuscripts of work by Michael Redhill, Stephanie Bolster, Richard Sanger, Mark Sinnett and John Bemrose, among others, as well as material that demonstrates Coles' work as poetry judge of the Canadian Literary Awards and the CBC Literary Awards. This material consists of submissions bearing notes and comments by Coles.

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