Poetry Please - 08/06/2008

During the 1940s and 1950s, the BBC – possibly quite unwittingly – employed a number of poets. These men, most notably Louis MacNeice, Anthony Thwaite, D.G. Bridson and Terence Tiller, were radio producers. One of the programme engineers who worked with them has written to Poetry Please to ask to hear some of their work, and he shares some of his memories of working with them. Full Moon by Vita Sackville-West From: Collected Poems – Volume 1 Publ: The Hogarth Press Toad by Norman MacCaig From: Selected Poems Publ: Chatto & Windus Stormy Day by W.R. Rodgers From: The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse For Louis MacNeice by Anthony Thwaite From: Poems 1953-1988 Publ: Hutchinson The National Gallery by Louis MacNeice From: Collected Poems Publ: faber This poem only features in the Saturday night edition The Heated Minutes by Louis MacNeice From: Collected Poems Publ: faber This poem only features in the Saturday night edition The Chilterns by DG Bridson From: The Christmas Child Publ: The Falcon Press Reading a Medal by Terence Tiller From: Palgraves Golden Treasury Demeter by Carol Ann Duffy From: The World’s Wife Publ: Picador Now That I Hear Trains by Hugo Williams From: Collected Poems Publ: faber The Meeting by Katherine Tynan From: Collected Poems Publ: MacMillan and Co The Mariner’s Compass by Simon Armitage From: Selected Poems Publ: faber I have been greeted by long absent friends by Richard Elwes From: First Poems Publ: Hodder & Stoughton