Title

The Rylands Brief: Stella Halkyard

Creator

Smith, Jessica

Halkyard, Stella

Dessaline, Guillaume (Editor)

Description

In Episode 2 of The Rylands Brief, archivist Jessica Smith talks to her predecessor at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Stella Halkyard, about her work with Carcanet Press, including her memories of the iconic building destroyed by an IRA bomb, which was for many years the publisher's Manchester base. Stella also remembers encounters with Christine Brooke-Rose and cinema-going with with Les Murray...

This podcast features items from an exhibition which celebrates 50 years of Carcanet poetry press, an exhibition which was installed in the Rylands in Manchester in mid-March 2020. The week that is was due to open, the Rylands closed as a result of the pandemic, and the exhibition Stella and Jess describe remained unvisited.

The Rylands Brief is devised and written by John McAuliffe at the Centre for New Writing and Jessica Smith at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Thanks to Guillaume Dujat des allimes for sound tech.

Date

2020