Paul Byrne, who used the pseudonym Frank Key, was a British writer, illustrator, blogger and broadcaster best known for his self-published short-story collections and his long-running radio series Hoo
Key giving a reading in 2011
Twitching and Shattered, Malice Aforethought, 1989
A ghoul from the 1994 Hooting Yard Calendar
The Hooting Yard 'implausible' emblem
Jubilate Agno is a religious poem by Christopher Smart, and was written between 1759 and 1763, during Smart's confinement for insanity in St. Luke's Hospital, Bethnal Green, London. The poem was first
Frank Key
…Resonance broadcast a number of Hooting Yard special episodes. In December 2007 Key and the performance artist Germander Speedwell performed the whole of Jubilate Agno, an epic devotional poem by Christopher Smart This was the first and only time that this poem has been performed in its entirety on live radio. The…
Portrait of Smart, c. 1745
"Let" side of the manuscript
"For" side of the manuscript