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Poets on Air

Producing Poetry at the BBC, 1950–1966

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Poets on Air: Producing Poetry at the BBC, 1950–1966 examines how three BBC radio producers, D.G. Bridson, Douglas Cleverdon and George MacBeth, collaborated with poets at the Third Programme (later Radio 3) to create new works which frequently pushed the limits and expectations of a more ‘traditional’ poetry reading audience. Nerys Williams argues that radio poets and their producers were attuned to radio’s potential as a disseminator of cultural commentary and narrative of potential political change to a mass audience. Williams considers how the institution sought to respond to and represent new poetic movements between 1950–1966, through the BBC’s Poetry Committee and major BBC Publications The Listener and BBC Yearbook. Using memos, scripts and sound archive material from the BBC, the book gives context to the reception of individual programmes as well as detailed correspondence, essays, lectures and notes from the producers’ archive holdings. Poets on Air reconstructs the collaborative relationship between poet and producer, offering a critical vocabulary that allows us to ‘listen in’ on the broadcast poem, or ‘sound’ work.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-01
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieModern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783032289810

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Nerys Williams is Associate Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University College Dublin, Ireland. A Fulbright alumnus, she is the author of Contemporary Poetry (2011) and Reading Error: The Lyric and Contemporary American Poetry (2007). She has published extensively on experimental late twentieth and twenty-first century poetic practice as well as the dynamic between poetic performance and radio production. Nerys is also an established poet and previously worked as a Sound Archivist at BBC Cymru/Wales.

Introduction.- Chapter 1 A Mass Audience for Modernism? D.G. Bridson with Basil Bunting, Ezra Pound and Hugh MacDiarmid.-Chapter 2 Documenting Race: D.G. Bridson and Langston Hughes – The Negro In America.- Chapter 3 Radiogenic Voices, Sonic Landscapes Douglas Cleverdon and Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood and David Gascoyne’s Night Thoughts.- Chapter 4 A Poetics of Listening Douglas Cleverdon and Sylvia Plath’s Three Women.- Chapter 5 Poetry in Performance: The New Sound George MacBeth: American Poetics and the British Scene.- Conclusion.- Appendix.