Archipelago Poetry Evening
On 9 October 2007, the Bodleian Library organized a poetry evening to celebrate the first issue of Archipelago, a new literary magazine published by the Clutag Press. Contributors to the magazine, including the Nobel Prize Laureate, Seamus Heaney, read from their work. Hosted in the historic Divinity School and Convocation House, the event also marked the Library’s recent acquisition of a tranche of papers relating to the press. A small selection of papers was put on display.
The Clutag Press was established in 2000 by Andrew McNeillie to issue handset leaflets by established and emerging poets. In 2004, with backing from the Tower Poetry Trust and in association with Christ Church, Oxford, Clutag began a more ambitious, if still modest, publication programme, including new work by Geoffrey Hill, John Fuller and Seamus Heaney. The first number of Archipelago appeared in Summer 2007.
BODcast Library
Listen to audio recordings from the evening, with readings from Seamus Heaney, Bernard O'Donoghue, Mick Imlah and more.