Choice of Poems
N the evening of the death of Queer. Mary our Poetry Interlude from 3¥YC introduced us to poems of Time and Mortality many of which, like "Death Be Not Proud," were appropriate to the hour. The poems were well read. But this feature would be improved if a few New Zealand poems were included each time, mainly because their absence in any genera] session confirms those folk in their prejudices who imagine that poetry stops somewhere just above the Tropic of Capricorn. It may be objected that after all there is First Hearing, in which poems by New Zealand poets may be heard, but to my mind this makes it too easy for many to escape from the
real richness of the country. The BBC has hitherto seen to it that sections of exclusively British poets are given to us, and we can safely leave it to them
to continue doing so.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 10
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156Choice of Poems New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 10
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