麻豆约拍

麻豆约拍 Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's radio poetry archive.

'Lost Voices' features WH Davies - a very successful poet in the early 20th century, but now remembered, if at all, for one poem - What is this life if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. But as Brian Patten explains, Davies lived an amazing life as a traveller, a tramp, a dreamer and a lover of the natural world. All this is reflected in his poetry which was admired at the time by George Bernard Shaw and Edward Thomas and which later inspired the 15 year old Brian Patten to write.

Producer: Christine Hall

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in March 2009.