[New-Poetry] kind of Bunting-centered on Morden Tower

[cris cheek]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hrsnj


it's free for download up on the BBC Radio 4 website for the next 5
days only!!

Totally totally highly recommended.


A Strong Song Tows Us - Another History of English Poetry

Synopsis:

Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, uncovers a
hidden history of English poetry. Stretching back to the Dark Ages
and emerging in 1960s Newcastle, Lee reveals an alternative tradition
of English poetry as the preserve of ordinary working people.

Sunderland cork cutters, shipyard workers and pit men encounter Walt
Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and Ezra Pound. And how a meeting between a
16-year-old schoolboy and one of the great modernists of English
literature, Basil Bunting, contributed to the flowering of the north
east as an international destination for the whole Beatnik generation.