to penned Night Mail. With Benjamin Britten providing the music, the result was a tribute to the trains which crossed the border to bring the mail and the postal order. Now railways are more likely to be the subject of angry letters to newspapers, but in the hope perhaps of reigniting the kind of rhythm and romance which inspired Auden, the National Railway Museum in York is on the hunt for a contemporary trackside poet.from Yorkshire Post: Between the lines: railways get back on track with poetry
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