American poet Marianne Moore described the creative ideal as "imaginary gardens with real toads in them", and her letters to Ezra Pound , Wallace Stevens , TS Eliot and others chronicle the shifting artistic values of modernism as well as a passion for baseball. Michele Roberts discusses her life and writing as The Selected Letters are published.
And in the light of a new novel from
Christa Wolf , one of Germany's most controversial writers, Night Waves looks at the way the scars of recent history continue to dominate German fiction despite reunification. Producer Rob Ketteridge