Seán Street is Professor Emeritus at Bournemouth University, UK. His books include The Poetry of Radio (2014), The Memory of Sound (2015) and The Sound of a Room (2020). He has worked in radio for much of his life and published ten collections of poetry.

• Prelude1. Dawn Chorus: Describing Sound2. Recording an Essence: Hearing, Reading and the Imagination3. Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature4. Murmurings: Call and Response Between Bird and Human5. Paths Through the Green Wood6. Science in Arcadia: The Road to Selborne7. The Romantic Poetry of Listening8. Honest John: The Sound World of John Clare9. North American Sublime10. Survival and the Sound of Spirit11. Listening to Ourselves Listening: Voices for Today and TomorrowPostludeBibliographyIndex

In the rarified world of film and television sound a ‘wildtrack’ is a non-synchronous recording not connected directly to an image. Seán Street has re-imagined the term in this book and guided the reader/listener from times when sound was ‘recorded’ solely through experience and then replayed from memory, imagination, poetry and prose. Wild Track engages us with an impressive cast list of artists and their creative works, speaking clearly across time and harnessing text with the developing role of technology to create a narrative flow as affecting as a woodland chorus in spring.