This post is a follow-up on the recent BBC Poet's Guide to Britain, which featured Sylvia Plath's poem "Wuthering Heights" (as well as "The Great Carbuncle" and "Hardcastle Crags" a.k.a. "Nocturne" and "Night Walk")...Amazon.co.uk lists a book version of A Poet's Guide to Britain, Owen Sheer's recent BBC Four series highlight six poets and six poems about inspired by the beautiful British landscape. The cover, left, features nice notches, don't you think? Reminds me of Hilda's hats ("Bile green. They were promoting it for fall, only Hilda, as usual, was half a year ahead of time. Bile green with black, bile green with white, bile green with nile green, its kissing cousin.")!
The product description, pasted below, is rambling. Just read the last sentence to know what the book, a tie-in anthology, will include.
"Six films about six very different poems from six different places in the British Isles. Each film tells the story of a poem - where it comes from, how it works and the nature and reach of its influence and legacy. Each film will be structured as a journey through that particular landscape. Overall these are films that open up not just the ideas of individual poems but also the idea of poetry itself. Each poem will be explored and analyzed in detail with locals and leading figures in the contemporary arts. Presenter Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our country, our land. He has chosen six powerful poems, all personal favourites, and all poems that have become part of the way we see our landscape. The tie-in anthology of the series will follow a similar format to the series itself while also offering additional poems about the landscape and nature of Britain."
Look for this book, published by Penguin Classics, around October 29, 2009.