4 Oct: The Spirit of the Song
Calling on his own background as a sound practitioner and radio feature maker Sean Street, celebrates the prose of Edward Thomas as the output of a uniquely tuned sonic ‘receiver’, a hyper-sensitive interpreter of signals from the natural world. In so doing he explores some of the ways in which the auditory experience, and in particular birdsong, found ex
About Sean Street:
In July 2023 Bloomsbury published Seán Street’s Wild Track: Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong, which was an AAP Prose Awards 2024 finalist in the Environmental Science category. Other prose includes works on the Dymock Poets, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as a series of books on sound poetics, including The Sound Inside the Silence (Palgrave, 2019) and The Sound of a Room (Routledge, 2020). His most recent poetry collection is Running Out of Time (Shoestring Press, March 2024). He is emeritus professor at Bournemouth University and frequently broadcasts on BBC Radio.
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Calling on his own background as a sound practitioner and radio feature maker Sean Street, celebrates the prose of Edward Thomas as the output of a uniquely tuned sonic ‘receiver’, a hyper-sensitive interpreter of signals from the natural world. In so doing he explores some of the ways in which the auditory experience, and in particular birdsong, found ex
About Sean Street:
In July 2023 Bloomsbury published Seán Street’s Wild Track: Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong, which was an AAP Prose Awards 2024 finalist in the Environmental Science category. Other prose includes works on the Dymock Poets, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as a series of books on sound poetics, including The Sound Inside the Silence (Palgrave, 2019) and The Sound of a Room (Routledge, 2020). His most recent poetry collection is Running Out of Time (Shoestring Press, March 2024). He is emeritus professor at Bournemouth University and frequently broadcasts on BBC Radio.