People who love poetry all have special poems in their lives to which they feel gratitude or indebtedness and one of the most common reasons for that special feeling seems to be that they had felt at the time, and have since, that a poem had communicated with them as though face to face.

This new lecture-performance by Graham Fawcett, illustrated throughout from a wide range of poetry, tells a story - in voices as personal and engaging as good eye-contact between people - of discovering poems which talk straight to us.