Overview
'I am walking along a lane with no earthly idea why...'Poet Glyn Maxwell
wakes up in a mysterious village one autumn day. He has no idea how he
got there - is he dead? in a coma? dreaming? - but he has a strange
feeling there's a class to teach. And isn't that the poet Keats
wandering down the lane? Why not ask him to give a reading, do a Q and
A, hit the pub with the students afterwards?Soon the whole of the autumn
term stretches ahead, with Byron, Yeats and Emily Dickinson, the
Brontes, the Brownings and Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen
and many more all on their way to give readings in the humble village
hall.And everything they say - in class, on stage, at the Cross Keys pub
- comes verbatim from their diaries, essays, or letters.Drinks With
Dead Poets is a homage to the departed, a tale of the lives and loves of
students, a critical guide to great English poetry, the dream of a
heavenly autumn. Nothing like it has ever been written.