No-One Left and No-One Came
Daljit Nagra selects Edward Thomasβ No One Left and No One Came and we hear the story behind the poem βAdelstropβ. From 2001.
Edward Thomas died exactly 100 years ago on the battlefields of the First World War. To commemorate that moment, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's radio poetry archive with Thomas's uneventful poem about inactivity and solitude 'No One Left and No One Came'.
In Edward Thomas's poem Adlestrop a train stops, there's a hiss of steam, someone clears his throat and a blackbird sings. And that's it. Yet this 16 line poem is one of the best-loved in English, inspiring articles, pilgrimages to the Cotswold village and many other poems. Anne Harvey tells the story of how it came to be written and explores the fascination of a short poem in which nothing happens but which deals with large themes: memory, time, naming, sound - and fear.
Producer: Julian May
First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2001.
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