Michael Symmons Roberts
Author Michael Symmons Roberts describes the influence of the life and work of the poet and painter David Jones on his own writing.
Series in which contemporary poets discuss other writers whose work has influenced their own.
Michael Symmons Roberts, a prolific award-winning poet, novelist and dramatist talks about the work of David Jones, author of In Parenthesis, a modernist epic of the First World War, and The Anathemata, hailed by WH Auden as the finest long poem of the 20th century.
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- Mon 1 Dec 200823:00BBC Radio 3
- Mon 18 May 200923:00BBC Radio 3
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