Just listened to this R4 programme ref Penguin Modern Poet series....I have memories as they say of walking about with one of these books in my pocket....scrawling my own thoughts in the margins and fly pages. As a dyslexic Secondary Modern student some how I was bitten by words, and wanted to be a novelist, a poet, with my own style....voice. Experimenting with words on a page....when I had but little experience of life. So here I am 45 years on, still doing it, using .... (....sic) as my style , my voice....
Anyway....http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...perback_Poets/
Anyway....http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...perback_Poets/