麻豆社

Daljt Nagra revisits the 麻豆社's poetry archive and selects Between the Ears - Play and Record.

Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound-recordist taping the Garden of Eden and recalls the impoverished soundscape of his childhood.

Growing-up on the edge of Liverpool in the 1960s and given a simple cassette recorder for a birthday present, he went in search of the sounds of the superbs inspired by the bird song records he borrowed from his local library.

He pressed play and record on his Panasonic and eavesdropped on ... What? Not a lot, as it turned out. Instead his imagination went to work: the sound recordist's field notes from the Trojan War, during the Irish Potato Famine, lodged in the trenches of the First World War.... A radio poem with found, remembered and dreamt sounds.

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in 2013.