Poems from an Attic Podcast

About this episode

The episode features a discussion celebrating the publication of Iris Murdoch's poetry collection 'Poems from An Attic'.

In this episode Miles is joined by Anne Rowe (University of Chichester/Kingston), Rachel Hirschler (Kinston University) and Rosanna Hilyard (Chatto & Windus) to celebrate the publication of 'Poems from An Attic: Selected Poems 1936-1995', published today by Chatto and Windus. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920/poems-from-an-attic-by-murdoch-iris/9781784746124 ANNE ROWE is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester and Emeritus Research Fellow with the Iris Murdoch Archive Project at Kingston University. She has published widely on Iris Murdoch, including The Visual Arts and the Novels of Iris Murdoch (2002), Iris Murdoch in the Writers and Their Work series (2019) and most recently is Co-Editor of Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems 1936-1995 by Iris Murdoch (2025). Rachel Hirschler works at the Kingston University archives and is lead transcriber for Murdoch’s poetry and much else besides. Rosanna Hilyard is Assistant Editor at Chatto and Windus, and has been shepherding Poems from an Attic to publication. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Isis Magazine, The Northern Echo, and several anthologies including Tactical Reading, Adrift and Outside Of Me.

People in this episode

Host: Miles

Guests: Anne Rowe, Rachel Hirschler, Rosanna Hilyard

Topics covered

• poetry
• Iris Murdoch
• literature
• publication
• academic discussion

Keywords

• Iris Murdoch
• poems
• literature
• publication
• academic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Chichester, Kingston University, Chatto & Windus, Iris Murdoch Archive Project

Books & works: Poems from An Attic: Selected Poems 1936-1995

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