R.F. Langley (1938–2011) has been described as ‘one of the secret treasures of modern poetry’. The poetry magazine PN Review was one of Langley’s earliest champions, publishing both his verse and the extraordinary prose of his journals.
Listen to an evening of readings by writers who admired his work, organised by WCN and the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA:
- Jeremy Noel-Tod: Introduction & ‘You With Your Visions and Dreams’
- R.F. Langley: Reading of ‘Poor Moth’ at UEA, February 2005
- Julia Blackburn: Letter from RFL and ‘Still Life with Wineglass’
- Peter Hughes: ‘Cook Ting’ (RFL) and ‘Cook Ting’ (Chuang Tzu, trans. Burton Watson)
- Ruth Langley: ‘The Upshot’
- Fern Richards: Westhall church journal entry, August 1994
- Interval and Drinks
- Eric Langley: ‘Mariana’
- J.H. Prynne: ‘Man Jack’
- Matthew Welton: ‘Depending on the Weather’
- Helen Macdonald: Benacre Broad journal entry, January 2005
- Peter Gizzi: ‘To a Nightingale’
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