Paterson (poem) caught Williams' attention for its use, with a technical skill that seemed to rival Pound's in "The Cantos", of such diverse and seemingly prosaic materials as notes from a congressional investigation, an X-ray report and a physician's testimony on cross-examination. He wrote to fellow poet Louis Zukofsky, "I've begun to think about poetic form again. So much has to be thought out and written out there before we can have any solid criticism and consequently well-grounded work here." In 1944, Williams read a poem by Byron Vazakas in "Partisan Review" that would help lead him to solutions in form and
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life is a BBC-TV satire programme produced by Ned Sherrin, which aired during the winter of 1964–1965, in an attempt to continue and improve on the successful formula of his "That Was the Week That Was" (known informally as "TW3"), which had been taken off by the BBC because of a forthcoming general election. It too featured David Frost as compère, with two others, William Rushton (as he was billed at the time) and the poet P. J. Kavanagh joining him