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

[Roger Day]

V aroused the politicos to have questions in the house, IIRC. It's not
so much that I hate these films, but I think the lists that
concentrate on biography do not do justice to the connection between
these arts.

Roger

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Robin Hamilton
<robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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
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