Join us in celebrating the life and work of Edward Thomas at the Edward Thomas Literary Festival 2024.
Seán Street, calling on his own background as a sound practitioner and radio feature maker, 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 expression in Thomas’s writing prior to the first poems, and coincident with the initial developments in recording technology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
About Seán 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.
