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sound recordings20
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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)2
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn2
British Institute of Recorded Sound1
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)1
Mezhdunarodnai͡A Kniga1
Mezhdunarodnai︠A︡ Kniga1
Mezhdunarodna︠I︡A Kniga1
MitropolʹSkii, I I1
MitropolʹSkii, I. I1

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Archive Sub-collection

Audio Recordings

University of Leeds - Poetry Room

c.1950-1988

This subfonds comprises audio recordings created and collected as part of the activities of the Poetry Room. The earliest recordings appear to predate the opening of the Poetry Room, but many relate t...

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Sound Recordings (Audiocassette)

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1982-1999

Copies of recordings on audiocassette of radio broadcasts and poetry readings by Geoffrey Hill, including radio adaptations of Hill's work.

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Audio Recordings

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1968

This series comprises audio recordings made by Thomas Blackburn in the 1950s and 1960s, and related papers.

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Sound Recordings (Compact Disc)

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1963 - 2008

Copies of recordings on compact disc of poetry readings and radio broadcasts by Geoffrey Hill, many of which include short introductions or discussions by Hill on his poetry.

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Audio Recordings

Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)

c.1960

Audio recording of John Heath-Stubbs reading a selection of his published poems. Each poem is preceded by a title announcement. The poems are as follows: [Side A]: - Canticle of the Sun - Carol or A...

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Sound Recordings of John Heath Stubbs (1)

c.1991-2002

This CD contains audio recordings of John Heath-Stubbs collected by Adrian Risdon. Includes the following: - Recording of an interview with John Heath-Stubbs on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves programme, ...

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Interviews with Fresco and Menascé

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1988-1989

Audio recording made by Silkin of his responses to questions from Gaby Fresco [Gaby Petrone Fresco] on the poetry of Isaac Rosenberg. Discusses Rosenberg's stoicism; his playlet Moses; his attitude an...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

9 February 1961 - 19 April 1963

4 typescript letters from Arpad Tarcy, on behalf of Sound News Productions, to Jon Silkin. Largely concerns the 'Poets' Lot' series of recordings.

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Poets Reading, No. 7

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

Summer, 1962

Sound recording on a 7 inch vinyl disc of Thomas Blackburn and Kingsley Amis reading poems from their collections 'A Smell of Burning' and 'The Evans Country' respectively, for Jupiter Recordings' 'Po...

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Sound Recordings of John Heath-Stubbs (2)

c.1985

This CD contains audio recordings of John Heath-Stubbs collected by/sent to Adrian Risdon. Heath-Stubbs announces and reads the following: - In Every Sense of the Word (preceded by short discussion ...

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Strange Meeting: A Drama for Actors and Music

1993-1994

Bound word-processed copy of Robert Chrisoforides' '

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Letters to Jon Silkin

1 June 1960

1 typescript letter to Jon Silkin from Lee Anderson of the Department of English at Yale University. The letter relates to a proposal by Anderson to record Silkin reading his poems.

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