The death of Captain Cook
A guest post by Julien Domercq, winner of the inaugural Cambridge University Library/History of Art Student Curatorial Competition and curator of the exhibition ‘The death […]
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Flesh wounds : David Holbrook and D-Day
David Holbrook, later well-known as a writer, educationist and controversialist, landed in Normandy as a twenty-one year old tank commander on D-Day, 6 June 1944. […]
Continue reading »Literature of the Liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946
A new exhibition in the Library celebrates the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris and shows some of the books that were published, mainly […]
Continue reading »‘rhythm and line and necessity’: John Riley and Czargrad
A new exhibition in the University Library Entrance Hall traces the composition of John Riley’s poem Czargrad, a seminal work in the alternative tradition of […]
Continue reading »‘All things go free that have survived’: Seamus Heaney 1939–2013
Seamus Heaney, the most celebrated member of a remarkable generation of Irish poets, died on the 30th of August at the age of 74. His […]
Continue reading »Henri Maccheroni artist-books exhibition
In the context of the international colloquium ‘Les Espaces du Livre: Supports et acteurs de la création texte/image (XXe-XXIe siècles)’, held at Trinity College from […]
Continue reading »Clive Wilmer poetry reading
On Thursday 20 June the poet Clive Wilmer will give a reading from his work to mark the launch of his Collected Poems from Carcanet […]
Continue reading »The Cambridge Ladders
Recent visitors to the Library’s Entrance Hall cannot fail to have noticed the new art installation there, which extends up the stairways and on to […]
Continue reading »Peter Scupham at Eighty
The new exhibition in the North Front Corridor celebrates the eightieth birthday of the distinguished poet Peter Scupham. Born in Bootle in 1933, Scupham read […]
Continue reading »Ten Thousand and Counting
The Manuscripts Department has just reached a milestone with the arrival of its ten-thousandth Additional Manuscript, a collection of letters addressed to the poet and […]
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