麻豆社

麻豆社 Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆社's radio poetry archive and picks A Burning Sound: The Poetry of David Gascoyne.

David Gascoyne talks to Sean Street about his work and his life.

Aged 16, David Gascoyne published his first book of poems in 1932. A year later his novel appeared and in 1935 his book on Surrealism. He then moved to Paris where he was friends with Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, Max Ernst and Paul Eluard.

David became highly regarded as a translator, and wrote 'Night Thoughts', one of the great radio poems of the 1950s.

David Gascoyne died in 2001 aged 85.

Producer: Julian May

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in 1995.