REMEMBER YOUR LOVERS - The Poetry of Sidney Keyes
Devised by Neil McPherson from the poetry of Sidney Keyes
Devised by Neil McPherson from the poetry of Sidney Keyes
About The Play
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.
It is available to stream FREE on the Finborough Theatre YouTube channel, Scenesaver and selected podcast streaming services including Audible, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, ListenNotes, Deezer and PodcastIndex.
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.’
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