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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Theresa Muñoz, "Archivum" (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025)
Description: Archivum (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025) by Dr. Theresa Muñoz is a book – wise, funny and inventive by turn – that explores what it means to look at artefacts in an archive, and how these objects resonate with events in our lives. Imagined as a walk across Edinburgh, landmarks such as the Balmoral clock, National Library of Scotland, Meadows, Canongate Kirkyard and Water of Leith provide a meditative backdrop to the poems.
The archives - in particular the archive of the writer Muriel Spark – are used to create a space to come to terms with the complexities of a lif...