The series consists of files containing correspondence, memoranda, research and printed material relating to the publication of P.K. Page's poetry and the exhibition and sale of her paintings and drawings; to readings and teaching; to studies of her work; to organizations and institutions with which she had dealings; and to memberships and honours. Included are files of speeches, reviews and clippings, files relating to the anthology 'To Say the Least' and files relating to a puppet play Page helped to produce.
Additional material includes files relating to the fairy tales, 'The Travelling musicians' and 'A Flask of sea water', the books of poetry, 'The Glass air' and 'Hologram', and to 'Brazilian journal'. Also included are files relating to the National Film Board film 'Still waters' about P.K. Page and a file on the video production of her story, 'Unless the eye catch fire'. The Sylvia Notini file contains correspondence with the Italian scholar, who translated Page's work. The Bukowski Agency file contains Page's correspondence with her agent, Denise Bukowski.
Further material include files on the publication of 'The Goat that flew', 'Noah's flood' and 'A Children's hymn' and correspondence with publishers Mother Tongue Books, Brick, Anansi, Lester Orpen Dennys, Key Porter, McClelland and Stewart, Oxford University Press, Beach Holme, and Kid's Can. There is also correspondence with journals, including 'Arc', 'Malahat review' and 'Canadian literature'. Other business correspondence relates to the Friends of the Earth, CAPAC, League of Canadian Poets, Canadian Writers Foundation, Canadian Federation of University Women, Victoria Literary Arts Festival, Eden Mills Festival, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, University of Toronto, Harbourfront, and the Victoria School of Writing. There is correspondence about permissions and readings, about Page's trip to Mexico, and to the Order of Canada. Included are birthday cards P.K. Page received on her 80th birthday. There are reference files on Philip Glass, Leonora Carrington, Salman Rushdie, poetry, creativity, angels, the environment, the mind. Included are clippings of reviews and general articles on Page.
Additional material includes files relating to her publications Compass Rose, A Kind of Fiction, And Once More Saw the Stars, A Grain of Sand, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New, Cosmologies: Poems Selected and New, and Brazilian Alphabet and includes correspondence with Buschek Books, Porcupine's Quill, Stoddart Publishing, Fitzhenry and Whiteside and David Godine Publishing. There are files relating to a film and book adaptation of Unless the Eye Catch Fire. There are files relating to Page's musical projects including a collaboration with Oscar Peterson, files relating to exhibition of her artwork, files relating to her honours and awards, including files on the Vancouver Writers' Festival tribute to Page, to her nomination for the Griffin Prize as well as numerous honorary degrees. There are files on projects/events she participated in including anthologies, an art and poetry reading fund-raiser and the CBC Literary Awards. There are files containing contracts, speeches, files re. translation of Page's work into various languages, as well as files of corresponence about invitations and submissions. There are files containing correspondence with literary agents.There are typed transcripts of an interview by Christine Wiesenthal. There is a file titled Zailig Pollock containing correspondence re. The Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page Conference (at Trent University in 2002) and an edition of collected works of P.K. Page. There are files relating to a 1984 trip to Australia for Writers' Week. Also included is printed material including broadsides as well as a file of clippings about P.K. Page and reference files on Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Bishop and and other. There are posters advertising readings and other events.
Included in horizontal storage: readings posters, 1984-1986, container 42.
Later instalments (2006-2010) of Page's records for this series retains the characteristics of records noted above. This material includes: the Victoria Symphony Orchestra's 2006 birthday tribute; permissions letters to reprint published works (2001-2005); requests for interviews and invitations to readings and events; correspondence, royalty statements, permissions forms, and review relating to Page's publications with Porcupine's Quill; publicity material from Poppy Press's editions of 'Alphabetical' and 'Cosmologies'; printed broadsides by Signal Hill (1977); records relating to the 'Flask of Sea Water' and 'The Filled Pen' audio projects; 'Planet Earth' clippings and reviews; material (including poetry) used for public readings; correspondence and typescripts pertaining to translations; correspondence relating to Page's receiving and ultimately returning the Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award; the Doctor of Letters and convocation brochure from the University of Winnipeg; the Doctor of Letters from the University of British Columbia; the Doctor of Letters from Trent University; the Lieutenant-Governor's Prize (2004); and interest files on political correctness, Joseph Brodsky, Ted Hughes, Eric Ormsby, Idries Shah, and on Sandra Djwa's work on a biography of P.K. Page.
The Subject Files of the 2010-0154 instalment of records arriving to Library and Archives Canada following Page's death contain a wider variety of material due to a number of the files having been formed by the accumulation of piles of records in various locations in Page's office. A number of the files inserted in the Subject Files series thus represent Page's intention for the records, rather than a unity of physical type. For this reason, subject files for this instalment include those labelled by the creator as "Pending" or by the executor as "Loose Sheets." Other files in the series retained more distinctly subject-based file labels (and thus file titles).
Also in this series are posters and press cards relating to the publications of P.K. Page, exhibitions relating to her work, and the work of other authors, as well as a mock-up for the cover of "Cry Ararat!".
Also includes 2 audio cassettes for The Conference of the Birds by Jeni Couzyn and a video recording for What Time is it Now? / compser Anna Hostman; libretto by P.K. Page.