ACE217.3 (00:07:10 - 00:16:29)
Hegley reads His Heart’s in the Wrong Place, It Should be in the Dustbin. Breeze recites Dreamer. Breeze introduces and recites Ordinary Morning. Film of Carl Rakosi; reads The Experiment with a Rat. Rakosi talks about the tension in a poet between subject matter and beauty of form. Reads Of all the Old Times, I’ll take Chinese Poetry. Introduces and reads The Country Singer. Talks about expressing reality and emotion. Reads Instructions to the Player. Hegley reads Christmas, and introduces material from the Rotterdam International Festival of Poetry.

ACE217.4 (00:16:29 - 00:24:31)
[The following all appears to be footage from 1988.] Rotterdam. Jules Deelder announcing, from a refuse lorry, events of that evening. Hegley VO reading short poems over shots of the Park on the Nieuwe Maas, crowds, balloons. Deelder. The festival poster. Refuse lorries painted with short quotations such as “The poem is a message” (Deelder), “Let the earth always be clear and always clear the sky” (Rafael Alberti). Yehuda Amichai. Diane Ozon, Lawrence Raab, Vyacheslav Kuprianov (with Nizametdin Akhmetov beside him?), and James Fenton performing. Deelder making announcements. Shu Ting performing. Deelder. Lawrence Raab performing. Audience. Tomaz Salamun performing. Deelder. Audience. Zbigniew Herbert. Francis Bebey. Wole Soyinka. Hawad. The Park. Bei Dao introduced. Bei Dao performing The Snow Line. VO scenes in the Park. Hegley VO shots of Rotterdam reading translation. Credits.