WORDS in ACTION

I spent a gentle half hour on Sunday listening to U. A. Fanthorpe’s Christmas card poems read by Sheila Hancock. Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and others commented on the delight of being on the poet’s card list.

As ‘U. A.’ put it, she turned to the animals and bit players in the story when she had run through the main characters in the story.  ‘What the Donkey Saw’ is just one of such. Not sentimental, but thoughtful and droll.

Her partner Rose who survives her, reminisced about the banda on which they reproduced the early cards.  Some of us can remember the purple ink on our fingers and the spirity smell!

If you’ve a half hour in the kitchen or decorating the tree, listen to it on iplayer.  It’s a treat!