Notes and Poems about Radio
Notes and Poems about Radio

Summary/Abstract: It was the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 that made the world fully aware of the vital necessity, the deadly seriousness of radio. The survivors owed their lives to radio; those who perished drowned only because of confusion in the ship’s radio room and a lack of clear procedures for radio contact in a disaster. Most listeners use radio as a source of information. But what kind of information? And how does it differ from what you find in newspapers or on television? It ismy belief that the true, or as philosophers would say, the existential meaning of radio is in the magic of the voice, the magic of sound. And in this sense poetry and radio share the same element – air. My own personal approach to radio is as a sequence of sounds. They, the sounds, may be words, but not necessarily so. Drama, dramatic effect is created in the air, when sounds collide, smack each other round the head, rub noses.

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