Poems for Anzac Day
REAT ‘occasions sometimes find us unequal to the moment. Unable: to find words to suit our feelings we grasp
the nearest to hand, with the result that Anzac Day will, as often as not, find us listening to Binyon’s "For the Fallen," which is in danger of becoming hackneyed, Through the foresight of the NZBS, Anzac Day, 1952, introduced 3YC listeners to Ruth Gilbert’s sequence of poems The Slow Years Pass. These new flowers at an old grave show that we do not intend to forget those who in two wars have given their lives for their country. The different character of each poem was emphasised by the variety of voices reading them and the music in the intervals between readings brooded on each poem. Commissioned work may not always equal that which comes unbidden, yet there can be no more real employment for the poet than in responding to-the community’s most worthy needs. Except where poems are of an obviously superlative quality a single reading is not enough by which to ‘assess them, nor as part of an Anzac memorial would it be fitting to comment. One hopes, therefore, that they will be heard at other times or that they
will be printed.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 8
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209Poems for Anzac Day New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 8
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