The revival of the Top 6 and My Favourite Poem features continues and I'm honoured by having Chris Martin here.
A retired librarian, editor of the old, pocket-sized Poems from Portsmouth magazine and much else besides, it's going to take someone pretty good to beat him in next week's Portsmouth Poetry Society Quiz.
The Searchers (John Ford)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
On the Town (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)
La Regle Du Jeu (Jean Renoir)
A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
My Favourite Poem
The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins
This
cathedral of a poem has a thrilling and illuminating rhythm running
through its 35 stanzas, and is packed with memorable images which I at
first thought of as cinematic but now consider visionary in
both senses. It is an intensely religious work that can appeal to both
those of faith and those of none, and rewards repeated reading or
recitation. Its heft and majesty has been justly rendered by Alan
Rickman. I'm sure if I memorised it in its entirety, I would be high,
such is its power. My desert island poem.
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Thanks, Chris, and please, if anybody else would like to contribute a Top 6- of absolutely anything- or a few words on their favourite poem, do get in touch.
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