Be our Valentine? Library love letters and break-up letters
You have stolen our heart, but we are worried that your love isn’t true! From Monday 13th until Tuesday 14th February you can write the Library a letter to express how you feel about us. Poems, a Haiku, rambling prose, or a declaration of love, or hate!
Write a love letter if we are supporting you, being there for you and making your life easier. Write us a break-up letter if we’ve let you down, or if you have turned to the arms of another (Library/internet search) – please tell us why, we want to win you back!
The campaign will be run in a similar way to the recent Halloween campaign – at the Main Library entrance we will leave large sticky notes and some feather pens for you to write the letters. Please stick the letters up onto the poster. Take our hearts away with you (stress key rings and love hearts sweets!).
We will also have displays in the Library showing some of the items from our General Collections and Special Collections.
In the case you will see these items from our General Collections:
- Why we love : the nature and chemistry of romantic love / Helen Fisher. BF575.L8F5
- Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present / Lillian Faderman. HQ75.5F4
- The tale of Cupid and Psyche / Apuleius ; translated, with prefaces, allegorical appendices, afterthoughts, and index, by Joel C. Relihan. PA6209.M5R4
- Love is all (2014) / directed by Kim Longinotto [DVD]. dvd PN1995.9L6L7L7
- Love story (1970) / directed by Arthur Hiller [DVD]. dvd PN1997.L7H5
- Brokeback Mountain / Gary Needham. PN1997.2B876N4
- Fifty Folio love poems / engravings by Simon Brett. PN6110.L6F54
- Women who love too much / Robin Norwood. RC552.R44N7
- American beauty / [screenplay by] Alan Ball ; [with an introduction by Sam Mendes]. PN1997.A64B2G00
- The romance fiction of Mills & Boon, 1909-1990s / Jay Dixon. PR888.L69D5
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind / edited by Christopher Grau ; with a foreword by Michel Gondry. PN1997.E8G8
- Love poems / Carol Ann Duffy. PR6054.U38L7
- Love on the Left Bank / photographs and text, Ed van der Elsken. TR654.E47
- Norman Rockwell / Karal Ann Marling. ND237.R68M28
- The devil’s playground / Nan Goldin. TR655.G7
If you have any questions or would like to write your letter to us digitally, please email [email protected].