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Seán Street
@seanstreet.bsky.social
Liverpool

Sound, radio history, poetry, birdsong.

Wild Track (Bloomsbury Academic)

Running Out of Time (Shoestring Press)
Someone somewhere will ALWAYS notice.
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Whether or not intended, there are layers of meaning in the hunting press pack being placed under George Orwell’s statue and quote at BBC Broadcasting House, London.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Unpublished late poems by Charles Tomlinson, marking ten years since his death. These have been transcribed from Charles’s notebooks by his daughters, Juliet and Justine, and published by Dare-Gale Press. This little book is a poignant jewel.
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Low tide, Llandanwg.
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
My Halloween poem from Journey Into Space, written in time of Covid. About other stuff too…
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
W.H. Hudson meets the ‘ghost’ of Richard Jefferies… (From Wild Track)
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
There they go
October 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
5th Anniversary. The Sound of a Room , published 24 October, 2020.
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Remembering John Lucas today, with this extract from Matt Simpson’s poem, ‘Moonlight on Aegina’ from Simpson’s Collected Poems (Shoestring Press, 2011)
October 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
20 October 2016, in Hampstead with Piers Plowright.
October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
October 12th from A Walk in Winter (Enitharmon Press, 1989).

My father and his father both died on this date, 35 years apart.

We all have our own ‘October 12ths’. Call it by any other date, it’s the same. Dates - like places - can grow from being ordinary to extraordinary in an instant.
October 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Long awaited, and at 1250 pages as weighty as expected.
October 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
October 2024, with Michael Longley.
October 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
October 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
John Lucas has passed away. No words to express feelings at this time. I, as many other writers and poets, owe him an immense debt as a publisher, a critic & friend. On a card I had from him only a week ago he’d written: ‘We shall meet for a drink again.’ I look forward to that John.
September 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
TV in Liverpool Heart Hospital waiting room currently showing episodes of Doc Martin. 🧐
September 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Bournemouth Radio station 2CR (Two Counties Radio) went on air, 15 September, 1980 - 45 years ago.
September 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Radio Times, 10 September 1937: ‘Memories’ number
September 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
My review of Jeremy Hooker’s recent collection, Preludes, (Shearsman) just published in the Richard Jefferies Society Autumn Newsletter.
September 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Whether spoken aloud or read silently to the self, Chris McCabe’s new collection from @ninearchespress.bsky.social is a richly sonic experience from cover to cover. The whole thing is a journey made up of stepping stones that ring as you touch them.
September 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
At the start of a new academic year it seems fitting to recall the motto of the old alma mater: ‘Pretia Aldi aequabimus’
September 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Very nice to have ‘Donegal’ present as part of this handsome new anthology of the Shipping Forecast, and to be an adjacent neighbour of Zaffar Kunial within it.
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
When sometime soon they seek to produce evidence as a reminder that there was once civilised creativity, this might be a useful artefact.
August 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A brief moment from that much-loved work, ‘The Compassionate Cello’ 😉
August 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Athenaeum, Liverpool.
August 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM