Night Mail.

Lots of poems to be listened to here. I went here because last night there was a short programme about the end of the Royal Mail Post trains. before it started I guessed they would start it with Auden's poem, Night Mail and they did. I always thought it was Betcheman with its strong rhythm and rhyme but I have heard it enough now to be certain. It accompanied a 1930s film by the Royal Mail which I don't remember seeing except for short clips.

I have just listened to both Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's poems on this page and I have noticed a slight twinge of Hughes' Yorkshire accent in Plath's speech. Not a surprise I know but interesting to note nevertheless.

All this poetry has started me on an idea which I am off to realise. Bye