Barbara Holdridge, a pioneer for spoken-word recordings, dies at 95 In 1952, she and her friend Marianne Mantell founded Caedmon Records, putting out LP records of poets and authors reading their ...

Barbara Holdridge and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of such famous writers as Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot reciting their work. Holdridge died Monday at 95.

Ms. Holdridge, along with her best friend, Marianne Mantell, built the label, Caedmon Records, into a recording industry dynamo by releasing LPs of such notable authors and poets as W.H. Auden, T ...

When they came up with the idea for their first Caedmon album, in January 1952, they sent a note to Thomas requesting a meeting. It was signed “B. Cohen and M. Roney,” so the poet wouldn’t ...

Barbara Holdridge, the audiobook pioneer who has died aged 95, was the co-founder of the spoken-word record company Caedmon, ...

Barbara Holdridge, co-founder of Caedmon Records that pioneered the audiobook concept, died earlier this month at her home in ...

Columbia poet laureate and former S.C. poet laureate will be in attendance at this year's free Soda City Poetry Festival at Richland Library Main on Assembly St.

Paul Durcan, an Irish poet whose droll, sardonic and frequently tender poems about lads in dimly lit pubs, quotidian life in the countryside and the trauma of political violence made him one of ...

Poets see and interpret everyday life through a special literary lens. When the world around them shifts and the language in which they write changes, the lens through which they see the world changes ...