Poets on Air

Producing Poetry at the BBC, 1950–1966
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-28981-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

  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 and . 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. 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.

Featured radio poets: Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Rosemary Tonks, Basil Bunting, Dylan Thomas, Laura Riding, David Gascoyne, Bob Cobbing, and Anne Waldman. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Nerys

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 D. G. Bridson’s Mass Audience for Modernism: The Renunciation of Laura Riding Jackson and Resurrection of Basil Bunting.- Chapter 3 Langston Hughes and D. G.  Bridson Documenting Civil Rights on the Third Programme.- Chapter 4 Radiogenic Voices, Sonic Landscapes: Douglas Cleverdon Producing Dylan Thomas’s and David Gascoyne’s .- Chapter 5 Sylvia Plath’s : Producing a Poetics of Listening at the BBC.- Chapter 6 From Poets’ Voices to the Radiophonic Workshop: George MacBeth with Rosemary Tonks and Bob Cobbing.- Chapter 7 Conclusion.- Appendix.

Über Autor(innen)

Nerys Williams is Associate Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University College Dublin, Ireland.  A Fulbright alumnus, she is the author of (2011) and (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.