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With Covid-19 ravaging populations and the World trying to come to terms with lockdown reality, it seems an appropriate moment to reactivate this Platform-7 project from 2013 exploring the trauma that follows on from a sudden shocking change in circumstance.
 Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio...It was a powerful experience to sing these two 1918 Walter de la Mare poems... |  Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio...On this day, at this time, in this place, and it was an opportunity for reflection and to take much needed time to contemplate ... |  Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio...the power of reviving the words of a poet from their slumber and sensing them reverberate through the city... |
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 Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio...weaving through the rain, carried in the gusts that ease the rust brown leaves from the branches.... |  Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio... I felt the age of the words I was singing dusty in my mouth, and myself becoming another echo in all that’s past... |  Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio...I sang between 10:50am and 1pm sometimes with an audience of nurses, patients, early morning drinkers, deliverymen, security guards and city wanderers... |
 Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio...even the odd crow and pigeon perched on a nearby tree out of curiosity... |  Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio...I met a young man, a patient of a nearby hospital, accompanied by a nurse as he fed his toast to the pigeons and smoked a few cigarettes... |  Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio...Other patients listened through the windows and sent friends who weren't bed-bound to take pictures. Another nurse said she was looking after someone who had been a bomber in the Second World War and was always fascinated and moved by his stories... |
 Walter de la Mare Sung by Bird Radio... |
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Images & Copyright: Mikey Kirkpatrick
11th November 2013
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