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 of the very stuff of poetry.'That early fascination with the
power of the invisible waves that transmit thoughts around the
globe persists, and continues to draw poems from writers who find
that the kinship of both forms as purveyors of 'pictures in the
mind' remains a unique one in the constantly evolving development
of electronic media.In 1998, poet and broadcaster Sean Street was
commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write his sequence "Radio - Ten
Poems about Sound" as the network's contribution to National Poetry
Day. This led to a collection based on the sequence, and ultimately
to this book, beginning and ending in silence, and containing in
between, the words and music, the images and ideas of a medium
which - like poetry - is capable of a potent partnership between
maker and 'tuner-in'. Here are poems which speak of the power of
radio to pour hatred and dogma into the head and the heart, beside
others which celebrate Test Match Special and The Archers. The
favourite aphorism about radio is that 'the pictures are better
because we collaborate in their making' remains true. After all, we
may hear with our ears, but we listen with our mind.
General
Imprint: |
Enitharmon Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2004 |
First published: |
March 2005 |
Editors: |
Sean Street
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
136 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-900564-39-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-900564-39-4 |
Barcode: |
9781900564397 |
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