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Poems on the Underground.

Poems on the Underground archive arrives at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library

23 Feb 2024

Beloved poetry project archive contains letters from Nobel Prize winners and Poet Laureates

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A treasure trove of unseen writing by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney reveals a vital creative friendship

14 Nov 2020

A unique archive acquired by Pembroke College Cambridge transforms our understanding of the two poets, showing how they drew career-defining...

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Thought

Project seeks nation’s most memorised poems to investigate power of poetry ‘by heart’

02 Oct 2014

By aiming to discover the UK’s most memorised poems, a new research project – backed by a former Poet Laureate – will explore the poems that live in...

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