Dead Poets Live – Nonsense: A Youthful Person’s Guide to Poetry

With their dramatised readings of classic poetry attracting some of our leading actors (such as Charlotte Rampling, Miranda Richardson, Patrick Kennedy, and Tom Hiddleston), Dead Poets Live has established a loyal following for their memorable events. On April Fool’s Day they return to Print Room at the Coronet with a show for the young and the young-at-heart, and for anyone who claims not to understand poetry: a brief history of Nonsense. A history, in fact, as old as poetry, inseparable from our earliest attempts at sense and our instinctive delight in the sounds we make. There is no poetry purer than Nonsense ? except that it’s nonsense ? and to try to make sense of Nonsense is in a sense to introduce all poetry.