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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell - rerun

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The Power of Imagination

Brian Bilston manages to find poetry in an Excel spreadsheet. He has got a brilliant thing he does with Excel spreadsheets. What I love about him actually is his ability to go from the silly, which is like the first poem is the catching the bus and it's really affecting. If I was teaching poetry to a screen based generation of young kids, Brian Bilston would be a brilliant place to start because he gives you that sense that words can do things nothing else can.

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