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Poetry Extra: ASJ Tessimond

16/07/2017

ASJ Tessimond

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, ASJ Tessimond

Daljit Nagra introduces 'Lost Voices': ASJ Tessimond, the Birkenhead poet.

4 Extra Debut. Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra introduces 'Lost Voices': ASJ Tessimond, the Birkenhead poet. With Brian Patten. From April 2010.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry with 'Lost Voices: ASJ Tessimond'. 

Poet Brian Patten showcases the undeservedly forgotten poet Arthur Seymour John Tessimond - known to his friends as Tessy - who died in 1962. 

The details of his life are now almost entirely consigned to oblivion, but his poetry lives on, largely in anthologies or as requests on Poetry Please, and Brian Patten was determined to find out as much as he could about the man who wrote some beautiful poetry about love. And cats. And, oddly, Luton. 

For a man who never found the love he dreamed of, he was conspicuously tenacious in looking for it - but, as a Tessimond researcher explains in Lost Voices, he had a fatal tendency to seek love from unsuitable women - chorus girls and nightclub hostesses. Nevertheless, Tessimond is clearly a man who inspired affection - what will Brian make of Tessy?  

Poems read by Nigel Anthony.
Producer: Christine Hall.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.

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