Sean Street
Seán Street has published nine poetry collections. A major interest in his prose writing is how audio experience interacts with poetry and memory; two recent books in this subject are The Poetry of Radio (2014) and The Memory of Sound (2016). Other prose includes texts on Gerard Manley Hopkins and The Dymock Poets. He is Emeritus Professor at Bournemouth University, and has made documentary and feature programmes for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.
Radio Waves
Radio Waves: Poems Celebrating the Wireless
In 1927, a writer in the Radio Times declared it unsurprising that poets should write about radio. '...for the new magic, which pours the music of the concert room into the stillness of the cottage and brings the song of nightingales into the heart of Town, is the very stuff of poetry.'
That early fascination with the power of the invisible waves that transmit thoughts around the globe persists. It continues to draw poems from writers who find a kinship of both forms as purveyors of 'pictures in the mind'. It therefore remains unique in the constantly evolving...
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