{"pk":58241,"title":"Innings","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The first versions of this poem about sound on paper were drafted while I was writing a chapter on sounds in travel literature. On 7 May 2018 my concentration broken by human and mechanical noises from outside, I tuned in to the commentary on a cricket match at Nottingham’s Trent Bridge (a ground less than 2 miles from the city centre), and listened to the applause as the South African batsman Hashim Amla, playing for Hampshire, reached his century. As I would have been there had it not been for the chapter deadline, the poem became a reflection on the paradox of sound being both present and absent in texts. During the Covid-19 pandemic I redrafted the poem several times, more intensely aware of the differences between inside and outside, between urban and natural sounds, and of the places where they meet.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4cz4p50d","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Timothy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Youngs","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nottingham Trent University","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2021-10-07T00:24:00+08:00","date_accepted":"2021-10-07T00:24:00+08:00","date_published":"2022-03-12T04:35:54+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucdavislibrary_streetnotes/article/58241/galley/44383/download/"}]}