From the memory of a 90s television programme, where a small portable receiver was shown out and about - the continuity announcer talking about songs and music and life - interspersed with obscure music videos from the far fringes of the current taste, the idea of an aesthetic stuck in my head.
A radio, filmed in interesting locations, and the announcer talking about art and poetry and life, as if a radio programme was just on in the background as passers by and nature and the world go about their business around it.
Decades later this image finally took form as a creative video art project, with poems and essays.
Here a selection of 10 poems and 8 poets.
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'What kind of Times are these' by Adrienne Rich
๐๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต (1929 - 2012) was one of Americaโs foremost public intellectuals, essayist and feminist.
'Warning' by Jenny Joseph
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ต (1932 - 2018) was an English poet, featured here with her most well known poem 'Warning'.
'Lines Written on hearing Sweet Home' by Mathew Franklin Whittier
๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ๐น๐ถ๐ป ๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ (1828 -1883) was the seldom remembered brother of the nationally celebrated poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. His poems scattered and spread here and there in magazines and newspapers under various synonyms.
'Mit a Nar' by Malka Heifetz Tussman
๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐ธ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป (1893 - 1987) was a Ukrainian-American Yiddish poet and teacher who was said to have been a bridge between generations of Yiddish poets from Eastern Europe and American-born Jewish poets.
'Revenge' by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
๐๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป (1802 - 1838) was an English poet and novelist who influenced many fellow English writers of her time.
'L'Ardeur' by Anna de Noailles
๐๐ป๐ป๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ก๐ผ๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ (1876 - 1933) was a French writer of Romanian and Greek descent, a poet and a socialist feminist.
'The Storm' by Anaรฏs Nin
๐๐ป๐ฎรฏ๐ ๐ก๐ถ๐ป (1903 - 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.
'Alone' by Edgar Allan Poe
'To Helen' by Edgar Allan Poe
๐๐ฑ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฒ (1809 - 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.