Synopsis
Writer Glenn Patterson celebrates the life and work of one of his favourite poets, Louis MacNeice, who was born at the beginning of the 19th century. Some 40 years after his death, MacNeice is being recognised as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
Other Archive resources

A Poet's Guide to Britain | 6: Louis MacNeice
Owen Sheers explores poetry set in the British landscape. He looks at Louis MacNeice's poem Woods, in which the middle-aged MacNeice takes stock of who he has become.

Viewpoint | Door into the Dark
Seamus Heaney talks about and reads poems at various locations in the West of Ireland.