The Essay - Under the Influence - Michael Symmons Roberts

Series in which contemporary poets discuss other writers whose work has influenced their own. Michael Symmons Roberts, a prolific award-winning poet, novelist and dramatist talks about the work of David Jones, author of In Parenthesis, a modernist epic of the First World War, and The Anathemata, hailed by WH Auden as the finest long poem of the 20th century.