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Total number of records: 32

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Brotherton Collection32
English Literature32
Leeds Poetry32

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poetry readings32
posters5
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)4
music and literature4
sound recordings4
correspondence3
creative writing scholarships,3
poets as teachers3
interviews2
publicity2

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)10
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)3
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)1
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)1
Rowe, Robert Stewart (2009)1
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn1

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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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Rosenberg Lecture and Reading

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1985

Photocopied and annotated typescript draft of a lecture (?) on Rosenberg which incorporates the reading of some of his poetry. The draft includes photocopies of sections of Rosenberg's published lette...

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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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Interview and Poetry Reading / WBUR

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

11 May 1994

Recording of a radio programme broadcast on Boston University's WBUR radio station on 11 May 1994, on the occasion of the publication of Hill's 'New and Collected Poems'. The programme begins with Geo...

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Reviews and Articles (2)

1992-1994

This file contains photocopies and press-cuttings of reviews of 'The Lens-Breakers', and articles on Silkin and his new collection. Includes reviews and articles by Bernard O'Donoghue ('Times Literary...

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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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Letters to Jon Silkin

29 January 1964

1 ts letter from Tom Costello at Swarthmore Educational Centre, Leeds, to Jon Silkin. Relates to Poetry and Jazz.

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Letters to Jon Silkin

11 September 1963- 2 November 1963; 1 n.d.

2 typescript letters and 1 ms letter from Jeremy Robson to Jon Silkin concerning poetry readings, and Poetry and Jazz. Also, poster for a Poetry and Jazz concernt at the Royal Festival Hall.

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

9 September 1963 - 16 September 1963

1 annotated carbon copy typescript letter from Jon Silkin to Reginald Birks, director of the Sunderland Empire Theatre; and 2 ts letters from Birks to Silkin. The correspondence relates to a poetry an...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

[May] 1963 - 12 February 1963

11 typescript letters, 2 ms letters, and 1 telegram from Alexander (Sandy) Dunbar, Arts Officer at the North Eastern Association for the Arts, to Jon Silkin. The letters mainly concern a Poetry and Ja...

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Letters to and from Jon Silkin

7 September 1979 - 12 August 1985

2 ms letters, 3 typescript letters and 1 ms postcard from Michael Farley, poet, editor and proprietor of Taxus Press, to Jon Silkin; and 2 ms copy letters and 1 carbon copy typescript letter from Silk...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

11 November 1991 - [September] 1997

1 typescript letter from Connie Pickard to Jon Silkin, and 1 ms letter from Pickard to Silkin and Toshiko Fujioka. The ms letter is accompanied by an advertisement for Morden Tower events. The file al...

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