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Seán Street

@seanstreet.bsky.social

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Liverpool Sound, radio history, poetry, birdsong. Wild Track (Bloomsbury Academic) Running Out of Time (Shoestring Press) Creation Radio (Forthcoming, Shoestring)

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Jul 29

Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 8h

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.

Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 2d

Long awaited, and at 1250 pages as weighty as expected.

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 3d

October 2024, with Michael Longley.

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you David.

Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 7d

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Play, for National Poetry Day: Oenone Thomas, Seán Street, David A. Lee | Ink Sweat and Tears

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 10d

I have warm memories of a radio feature we made together for the BBC World Service in the early 1990s.

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 11d

Work in progress Marie, but I’m doing ok thank you. Hope all’s well with you. X

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 29d

#Haiku

Approaching they saw
tunnels at the end of light
then it dawned on them

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 19d

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.

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 25d

TV in Liverpool Heart Hospital waiting room currently showing episodes of Doc Martin. 🧐

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 27d

Bournemouth Radio station 2CR (Two Counties Radio) went on air, 15 September, 1980 - 45 years ago.

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 29d

#Haiku

Approaching they saw
tunnels at the end of light
then it dawned on them

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The British Broadcasting Century podcast @bbcentury.bsky.social · 29d

Our latest podcast is out now - on the first Radio Times.
From that issue:
- the front page
- the first cartoon (on listening at a village hall)
- the first letter (from Spain)
- my favourite ad ("Height increased in 30 days"!)
The podcast awaits your ears. Do it now, whatever your height.

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Sep 10

Wild Track: currently not a bad price direct from Bloomsbury.

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Wild Track

PROSE AWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FINALIST 2024Wild Track is an exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded…

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Sep 10

Radio Times, 10 September 1937: ‘Memories’ number

Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you Richard. Good to reconnect.

Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Sep 8

My review of Jeremy Hooker’s recent collection, Preludes, (Shearsman) just published in the Richard Jefferies Society Autumn Newsletter.

Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Sep 5

At the start of a new academic year it seems fitting to recall the motto of the old alma mater: ‘Pretia Aldi aequabimus’

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Wonderfully eclectic, entirely delightful, learnedly informal, gloriously quirky, deeply knowledgeable, and totally original essays, held up to the light with absolute precision, with playfulness and above all with passion" – John Wyver

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Aug 28

When sometime soon they seek to produce evidence as a reminder that there was once civilised creativity, this might be a useful artefact.

Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Aug 25

Apache Mountain Spirits Dance
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INDIAN SONGS OF THE SOUTHWEST : GROUP OF MESCALERO APACHE INDIANS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Performer: HOPI INDIAN CHORUS; CHORUS OF NAVAJO INDIANS; CHORUS OF TAOS INDIANS; Ponhue; Bilokila; Panchelo; Tempayo; GROUP OF SAN CARLOS APACHE INDIANS; GROUP...

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · Aug 24

BBC ARCHIVES

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Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

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