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Remember Your Lovers - The Poetry of Sidney Keyes

The world premiere REMEMBER YOUR LOVERS - The Poetry of Sidney Keyes An audio poetry recital of the work of one of England's greatest Second World War poets Devised by Neil McPherson from the poetry of Sidney Keyes. Directed by Catherine Harvey. Recorded by Angus Chisholm and Catherine Harvey. Edited by Iain Mackness and Angus Chisholm. Sound Design by Iain Mackness. Assistant Direction by Erica Miller. Presented by Rhyme & Reason and Roguegunners Productions in association with the Finborough Theatre Cast: Claire Bloom. Catherine Harvey. Alexander Knox. Neil McPherson. Annabel Mullion. Louise Mai Newberry. Will de Renzy-Martin. Whoopie Van Raam. ‘I am the man who looked for peace and found My own eyes barbed. I am the man who groped for words and found An arrow in my hand.’ Commemorating VJ Day, the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Finborough Theatre’s digital initiative #FinboroughFrontier continues with a new audio poetry recital – Remember Your Lovers, a rediscovery of the poetry of Sidney Keyes, one of Britain’s finest Second World War poets, featuring acting legend Claire Bloom. Sidney Keyes was born in 1922 in Dartford, Kent, and died in battle in mysterious circumstances in Tunisia at the age of twenty. Alongside Keith Douglas and Alun Lewis, although younger than both, Sidney Keyes is widely regarded as one of Britain’s outstanding poets of the Second World War. He was awarded a posthumous Hawthornden Prize for his work. Remember Your Lovers rediscovers Keyes’s poems to tell his story through the women he loved – above all, his unrequited passion for the German Jewish refugee artist Milein Cosman – as he confronted the devastating reality of a world at war. ‘You must be ready for the desert Even among the orchards starred with blossom, Even in spring, or at the waking moment When the man turns to the woman, and both are afraid.’ Writers on Sidney Keyes ‘Sidney Keyes… potentially the finest English poet of the Second World War.’ – Robert Nye. ‘Sidney Keyes is already outstanding.’ – Stephen Spender, 1942. ‘The war poet that England had been waiting for…I saw at once that here was the real thing. It was a new planet swimming into my ken. What a disaster that such a poet should be lost.’ – Vita Sackville-West. ‘Keyes has an intellectual passion which is profoundly moving; he is like a Donne among the young poets…It is the tragedy of a whole generation which finds expression in his poems.’ – A. L. Rowse. ‘The subtlest, the truest, the most open representative of a generation we have yet to welcome and understand.’ – Herbert Read. ‘Obviously a poet of original talent.’ – Edwin Muir. ‘Perhaps then, the best tribute to the memory of Sidney Keyes would be, not to apply to him the name of a war poet; but to give him no less than his work in its intellectual and interpretative sympathies deserves.’ – Edmund Blunden. ‘I have known Keyes’s poetry for almost sixty years, since I discovered his 1945 Collected Poems at the age of 16 or 17 in a Scarborough bookshop. During all that time he has never ceased to move, delight, and instruct me. I owe him an immense debt that I cannot repay.’ – Geoffrey Hill. ‘What does annoy me is reading shit by Sidney Keyes wherever I turn. You pick up any two bob pocket magazine… & you’ll find bullshitty poems or tossy ‘Short Stories’ all by our Sidney. I wouldn’t mind if the man were any good but in my eyes at least he’s absolutely crap all use & I am gnawed by pangs of jealousy.’ – Philip Larkin Image of Sidney Keyes drawn by Milein Cosman with the kind permission of The Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust. www.cosmankellertrust.org Concertino for Harpsichord & String Orchestra III Allegro Vivace performed by Trevor Pinnock (SRCD 289) and music by Walter Leigh courtesy of Lyrita Recorded Edition c/o Wyastone Estate Limited. www.wyastone.co.uk