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This event took place on 20 June 2023. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
The story of life, Oscar Wilde said, began with a man and a woman, in a garden.
For this edition of the Poetry Hour a cast of leading actors explores enduring poetic images of gardens from William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Dante, T. S. Eliot, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Pope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Dylan Thomas.
Readers include Sophie Cookson (Kingsman/Confessions of Frannie Langton/Red Joan) and others to be announced soon.
Presented by The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation.
The Poetry Hour was founded by novelist and poetry anthologist Josephine Hart. Launched as The Gallery Poets in Mayfair in the mid1980s, it later became The Poetry Hour and won fame for bringing classic ‘great poetry read aloud by great actors’ to a wide audience. The British Library has supported Josephine Hart’s mission from 2004 and continues to do so in her memory on a regular basis.
This event took place on 20 June 2023. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
The story of life, Oscar Wilde said, began with a man and a woman, in a garden.
For this edition of the Poetry Hour a cast of leading actors explores enduring poetic images of gardens from William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Dante, T. S. Eliot, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Pope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Dylan Thomas.
Readers include Sophie Cookson (Kingsman/Confessions of Frannie Langton/Red Joan) and others to be announced soon.
Presented by The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation.
The Poetry Hour was founded by novelist and poetry anthologist Josephine Hart. Launched as The Gallery Poets in Mayfair in the mid1980s, it later became The Poetry Hour and won fame for bringing classic ‘great poetry read aloud by great actors’ to a wide audience. The British Library has supported Josephine Hart’s mission from 2004 and continues to do so in her memory on a regular basis.
