One of the world’s pre-eminent and prolific poets shares his extraordinary life journey and wisdom. From war-time, working class beginnings and an horrific education where he was taught by “bullying ignoramuses” (one of whom predicted he’d never amount to anything); David recounts how he found his love of poetry through a series of chance meetings and incidents. We discuss the absurdness of war and violence towards children; why Dylan Thomas is not a great poet; and the importance of dealing with rejection and never taking no for an answer. David also reads poems from his last collection “Salt” (2017) and his new book of poetry - “Loss” - will be published in January 2020.
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Release date: April 10th 2019
Runtime: 71m
Recorded: London
