John Drinkwater
fORN DRINKWATER followed up his recent 3YL address on "The Speaking of Verse" by another in which he put his. precepts into practice by reading a series of his own poems. I had not been altogether convinced by his doctrine of strict adherence to the rhythm of each line, and am less so now for having heard him. This is chiefly because he combines with it the questionable habit of making no pause or indication at all between lines; the two went imperfectly together. Also, there were too many poems crowded into a short broadcast, so that Drinkwater had to pause only for breath after each before announcing in a slightly admonitory tone the title of the next; and his poems, which are short, exceedingly delicate, and come out of a background of literary rusticity with very little meaning for New Zealanders, require separate and concentrated study. In job lots like this, they rather recall the famous line of Horace: "carmina quae scribuntur aquae potoribus," which being translated means "songs written by (or for) water drinkers." In spite of all this, the programme. was worth taking time out for.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 330, 19 October 1945, Page 9
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191John Drinkwater New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 330, 19 October 1945, Page 9
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