Like Poetry!
Why is it that when we see something beautiful we say 'it's like poetry! ' when some of us don't even like poetry?
Dannie Abse , Welsh poet and doctor, tries to throw light on the nature of poetry. He looks at poetic elements in music - with Alfred Brendel in painting - with Derek Southall in oratory - with his brother Leo Abse , MP
And he talks with four fellow poets: John Wain - professor of poetry at Oxford University
Alan Brownjohn - poetry critic of the New Statesman
Peter Porter - writer
Anthony Thwaite - co-editor of Encounter
Sound DENNIS PANCHEN
Film cameraman RAY HENMAN Producer MARGARET MCCALL Preview: page 17