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Layout setting for 'A beverage coaster for the Ephemera Dealer Steven Leiber from the Bay Area', which was produced as a beet mat. The typography for the text on ephemera used in 'Some Forms of Availability' was developed as a typographic structure for the work, and finally used as 'A Short Essay on Ephemera' in 2015: (object included with this archive. )

Prototype of 'a book of braids', 75 x 178, hand lettering in pen on cover, title and colophon pages, typed poems pasted in, holographic revisions, with the original artwork, 'the braids' of Kay Roberts, fine green thread attached to fastener on back wrapper. Two original coloured drawings for 'braids' by KR, not used in book Sheet with notes for printing/production of book. Typed sheet with drafts of poem for 'braids'. Paste-ups of KR's 'braid' designs, on 15 card strips for block making, in brown envelope. 11 draft pages of poems "from a Book of Braids now moving towards Hatband Landscapes"

With Colin Sackett. 4pp typed drafts of poems with annotations. 5pp handwritten drafts of poems. 1 maquette book, without text, showing samples of coloured papers as used. 1 card stiffener from envelope from Colin Sackett. Swatch of 4 paper samples as used in facsimile in the book.

Layout diagram for neon work. 2pp handwritten notes. 3pp drafts. 1pp layout diagrams for book This became the commissioned 'The Space in Front of the Fireman's Switch', 2013 for the Poetry Library South Bank Centre, London, and produced as print-on-demand book in 2 working copies. 1 here included 26pp single copy prototype book of project for the installation of a neon poem in the Poetry Library, South Bank Centre, London, in 2012. The book was commissioned by the Poetry Library as part of the installation, as for fire and safety reasons, a fireman's switch almost larger than the work itself had to also be installed. The book documents almost all of the neon poems made to date in their locations. (Cross-reference to 'no ideas' neon in 4. a installed objects)

42pp manuscript text and alterations, 1 letter to paper merchant, 8 trial cover printings on various papers, cover notes on folder

4 Gallery Invitation cards, 3 postcards, 9 greetings cards, 1 letter.

9 annotated and handwritten pages towards a poem for the retirement of a librarian, at the Tate Gallery, with 1pp final copy.

Prototype for (unpublished) book, 'Adagio' typed on cover, paper wrappers, sewn, 8pp, 153 x 204, title page: Adagio, Martin Fidler and Simon Cutts, Coracle Press 1976, tipped-in photo of model battleship on handkerchief on ironing board, typed poem pasted in. Eight photos, 89 x 125, all different, of work as shown in dummy. Large photographic prints, c200 x 250, eight different images, 22 in total, of same work as shown in dummy. Trial mount for three small photos, only middle 'window' with actual photo.