‘An impassioned call to verse’
The Independent

‘A personal and passionate celebration’
The Daily Mail

‘An entertaining jeremiad.. You cannot ask for much more from an authored documentary.
The Guardian

Griff Rhys Jones launches the BBC’s Poetry Season with a passionate and personal plea for poetry, exploring how verse has the power to enlighten, entertain, stimulate and seduce. Griff dissects a Keats’ poem with Simon Armitage, encounters an experimental poem made from a dozen beach balls. He celebrates W.H. Auden's Night Mail with a team of railway drivers, takes a Shakespearean masterclass with Nick Hytner and is thrown into the bardic bear pit at a poetry slam.