Henry Reed's reputation was established in 1946 by a single slim book of poems, A Map of Verona, which includes his much-anthologized war poem "Naming of Parts," one of three poems grouped together as Lessons of the War. While he has occasionally had poems published in periodicals and an expanded version of Lessons of the War appeared in 1970, no other volume of his verse has been published; yet he continues to be well known in England because of his works for radio. The twenty years after World War II saw a flowering of creative talent among the younger poets, dramatists, and composers who found in BBC Radio a fulfilling and reasonably profitable outlet for their work. The BBC Drama Department was the first to sponsor productions of plays by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Giles Cooper, and other now highly regarded dramatists. BBC Features, whose staff producers included...