* selection from the recently published poem cycle by Jaroslav Seifert translated from the Czech by EWALD OSERS, who prefaces the programme with a short introduction.
Read by HUGH BURDEN With additional readings in Czech by GEORGE PRAVDA
Seifert now aged 78, is one of Czechoslovakia's leading poets. Although essentially a lyrical writer his poems have been pre'ented from being published in his native country since 1968.
Reviewing the recently Published edition of these Poems Peter Porter , in The Observer of 16 timber 1979, wrote: twald Osers' versions of Seifert's Czech strike me as such effective poems in English that I recommend them to all readers of Poetry
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN