WRITING FOR RADIO
Sir,-I write to express my apprecia tion of the witty and perceptive series of talks given lately by Joan Stevens: The Prevention of Cruelty to Words. It gave me great pleasure, amusement and profit to listen to them. I think my favourite was the last one, because it seemed to me that Miss Stevens was right when she said a new form of writing was needed for broadcasting, and also when she said that Dylan Thomas was a supreme master of the new technique, I have never greatly enjoyed reading Thomas from the printed page, but have always been moved when I heard him reading his own poems. We must then, I think, share some of the original emotion that caused him to write the poem in the first place, and if we cannot understand all the words it matters as little to us as, apparently (from what he said in "A Few Words") it did to him. The poetic impact is the same. However, I do not write to join in the now closed Dylan Thomas discussion, but to thank Miss Stevens for very enjoyable ‘listening.
MARY
LOVEL
(Hamilton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 923, 18 April 1957, Page 11
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193WRITING FOR RADIO New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 923, 18 April 1957, Page 11
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