Poetry – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

The school years of Dame Muriel Spark

Posted on 18 January 2019 by Special Collections

This post is by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime, Rare Books Superintendent, who is cataloguing a varied collection of school magazines recently acquired by the Library. When you […]

Acquisitions, Poetry, Rare Books, Special Collections

Despised, Adored and Often Ignored: school poetry anthologies and the trace of classrooms past

Posted on 7 January 2019 by Liam Sims

This post is by Julie Blake, a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, currently finishing her thesis on the nature of […]

Collectors and collecting, Events, Poetry, Rare Books, Rose Book-Collecting Prize, Special Collections

Rose Book Collecting Prize 2019

Posted on 16 November 2018 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are open for the 2019 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]

Collectors and collecting, Poetry, Rare Books, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Sassoon's journal entry for Armistice Day

Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day

Posted on 11 November 2018 by John Wells

The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the First World War are familiar from often-reproduced images. Photographs taken in London and other cities show […]

Anniversaries, Manuscripts, Poetry

Paul Claudel and Audrey Parr

Posted on 23 July 2018 by John Wells

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright Paul Claudel (1868–1955), a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall displays […]

Archives, Exhibitions, French, Manuscripts, Poetry, Special Collections

The J. H. Prynne Papers

Posted on 11 May 2018 by John Wells

A long-term aim at the University Library is to ensure that the manuscript holdings adequately represent a group of poets so closely associated with the […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions

Thom Gunn revived and remembered, recorded

Posted on 14 December 2017 by John Wells

On 26 October Clive Wilmer launched his Faber edition of the Selected Poems of Thom Gunn in the University Library with a talk, refreshments and […]

Events, Poetry

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New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’

Posted on 4 December 2017 by John Wells

The friendship formed by the poet Siegfried Sassoon with the literary hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell was among the most formative of his life. Begun by correspondence […]

Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions