Digital Concrete: Reconstructing Frog, Pond, Plop
Jo Castle, senior photographer at the John Rylands Library, writes about creating a digital version of a radical translation of a poem about a frog
Tag: Poetry
No Rylands without us – Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
To mark the opening of the new Rylands exhibition ‘We Have Always Been Here’, poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan reflects on the Library archives from her position as a young Muslim woman.
Rylands Reflects: An anniversary post
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
New teaching resource on the creative process of poet John Gallas
A New Creative Writing teaching resource from the Rylands.
Compiling the dsh archive
Socially distanced interview with Stella Halkyard 01/04/2020
Recipes, Cakes and Puddings: Box listing the Work of Alison Brackenbury
Leah Watson writes: Hello! I’m Leah Watson, a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester studying MA History. I haveContinue Reading
‘A Ghost in the Rylands Library’: A Tribute to and from Elaine Feinstein (1930-2019)
We are deeply saddened by the death this week of the poet Elaine Feinstein, who was a dear friend andContinue Reading
Poetry Survival and the Carcanet Press Archive
Victoria Stobo writes: Since January 2019, I’ve been working as a Project Archivist in Special Collections, exploring the Carcanet PressContinue Reading
El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute researcher, writes his second blog post on the Dave Cunliffe Archive: Now that myContinue Reading
What are Little Poetry Magazines?
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute researcher, writes: The Dave Cunliffe Archive contains a superb collection of hundreds of BritishContinue Reading