Autorentext
Alan Bennett's television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George) and an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the South Bank Award.

Zusammenfassung
From his acclaimed live TV performance, Alan Bennett brings his own unique observations to six of Britain's finest and most popular poets. The collection comprises poems by Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, John Betjeman and Philip Larkin.