A personal journey around the landscapes of British poetry
Flatlands
Sunday 10 April 4.30-5.00pm
Programme8:
Flatlands
About the programme Big skies and featurelessness or a wealth of detail at ground level. Are people dwarfed by flatlands or made to stand tall. Is flat empty? What do poets like in flatlands?
Contributors: Professor John Barrell, Richard Mabey
Reader: Tom Courtenay
Poems
'Mist in the Meadows' - John Clare. Taken from 'The New Penguin Book of English Verse'. Read by Tom Courtenay
Sonnet - 'After Dark Vapours..' - John Keats. Taken from 'The New Penguin Book of English Verse'. Read by Tom Courtenay
Extract from 'Moors' - John Clare. Taken from 'English Verse 1830-1890' published by Longman. Read by Tom Courtenay.
'Here' - Philip Larkin. Taken from 'The Whitsun Weddings' published by faber and faber. Archive recording of Philip Larkin.
'Blackwater' - Lavinia Greenlaw. Taken from 'Minsk' published by faber and faber. Read by Lavinia Greenlaw.
'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' - John Keats. Taken from 'The New Penguin Book of English Verse'. Read by Tom Courtenay
