[New-Poetry] Advice -- Film/Lit course w "Poetry" angle

[Robin Hamilton]

From: "Roger Day" <rog3r.day at gmail.com>

>I notice you elide my words about *poetry*. I'd rather have films
> about or from poetry, of which I give several examples, but you, I
> notice give none.

Night Mail, which Roger has already mentioned, is paradigmatic. 
Interestingly, the script was originally offered to Hugh McDiarmid, who 
passed it on to Auden -- maybe a Grierson documentary made for Reith's BBC 
with McDiarmid's words would have been too echt Scottish.

Then there's Tony Harrison's "V" ...

Oh, yeah, in the way back when, That Was The Week That Was used to do 
this -- I vaguely remember as a young teen Peter Redgrove's "Sermon", and 
the Patroclus flicked from the walls of Troy bit from Logue's War Music, in 
the intervals between Millicent Martin's songs.

Stirring stuff, that, and it's stuck in my memory.

Of the films Roger hates, has anyone mentioned "Stevie"?  Gossip, but fun 
gossip.

The film I'd like to see made would be of Coleridge reading "Dejection: A 
Letter" to the assembled Wordsworth household -- put Jerry Springer in the 
shade, that would!!

Robin Hamilton