Unlocked
Dogs in spring park light
pulled by intent wet noses
through luminous grass
haven’t read the news
didn’t switch the TV on
follow only their noses
so what do they know
Seán Street’s most recent collection is Running Out of Time (Shoestring Press, March 2024). Prose includes works on Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Dymock Poets, and several studies of sound poetics, the latest being Wild Track: Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong, published in July 2023 by Bloomsbury Academic. He is emeritus professor at Bournemouth University and now lives in Liverpool.