Sunday Feature: Exploring Our Amazement: Poetry And Its Audience

Julian May, a radio producer of poetry programmes for two decades, and whose own poems have appeared in magazines and in books, talks to publishers, people who organise readings and websites, literary historians, poets and their readers to investigate the changing relationship between poetry and its audience through the ages. Does poetry become accessible, or merely harder to avoid? Does its increased presence today indicate that people care for it more and has the audience altered with the means of delivery? Does poetry now matter more - or less?