Seán Street
@seanstreet.bsky.social
Liverpool
Sound, radio history, poetry, birdsong.
Wild Track (Bloomsbury Academic)
Running Out of Time (Shoestring Press)
Sound, radio history, poetry, birdsong.
Wild Track (Bloomsbury Academic)
Running Out of Time (Shoestring Press)
Pinned
For Addiction Awareness Week, Jeremy Hooker’s poignant masterpiece chronicling efforts to combat the alcoholism that contributed to the death of his wife Mieke, based largely on his journals over a 10 year period from 1997 - 2007. A tough but beautiful read. Published by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For Addiction Awareness Week, Jeremy Hooker’s poignant masterpiece chronicling efforts to combat the alcoholism that contributed to the death of his wife Mieke, based largely on his journals over a 10 year period from 1997 - 2007. A tough but beautiful read. Published by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social
Recently discovered
that the 1st occupant of our Liverpool home when built in 1936, was a poet, John Barron Mays who went on to be Professor of Sociology at Liverpool Uni. We had the same publisher - Enitharmon - for a time & we both loved Thomas Hardy. There are still some traces of his time here.
that the 1st occupant of our Liverpool home when built in 1936, was a poet, John Barron Mays who went on to be Professor of Sociology at Liverpool Uni. We had the same publisher - Enitharmon - for a time & we both loved Thomas Hardy. There are still some traces of his time here.
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Recently discovered
that the 1st occupant of our Liverpool home when built in 1936, was a poet, John Barron Mays who went on to be Professor of Sociology at Liverpool Uni. We had the same publisher - Enitharmon - for a time & we both loved Thomas Hardy. There are still some traces of his time here.
that the 1st occupant of our Liverpool home when built in 1936, was a poet, John Barron Mays who went on to be Professor of Sociology at Liverpool Uni. We had the same publisher - Enitharmon - for a time & we both loved Thomas Hardy. There are still some traces of his time here.
TS Eliot: The Hollow Men, first published 23 November 1925
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
TS Eliot: The Hollow Men, first published 23 November 1925
Thanks to everyone who came along to last night’s reading, and changed the sound of a room at Liverpool Friends’ Meeting House, well-named for such an evening. Thanks also to those who bought books! X
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thanks to everyone who came along to last night’s reading, and changed the sound of a room at Liverpool Friends’ Meeting House, well-named for such an evening. Thanks also to those who bought books! X
Someone somewhere will ALWAYS notice.
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Someone somewhere will ALWAYS notice.
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
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.
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
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.
Low tide, Llandanwg.
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Low tide, Llandanwg.
My Halloween poem from Journey Into Space, written in time of Covid. About other stuff too…
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My Halloween poem from Journey Into Space, written in time of Covid. About other stuff too…
W.H. Hudson meets the ‘ghost’ of Richard Jefferies… (From Wild Track)
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
W.H. Hudson meets the ‘ghost’ of Richard Jefferies… (From Wild Track)
5th Anniversary. The Sound of a Room , published 24 October, 2020.
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
5th Anniversary. The Sound of a Room , published 24 October, 2020.
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
Remembering John Lucas today, with this extract from Matt Simpson’s poem, ‘Moonlight on Aegina’ from Simpson’s Collected Poems (Shoestring Press, 2011)
20 October 2016, in Hampstead with Piers Plowright.
October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
20 October 2016, in Hampstead with Piers Plowright.
Reposted by Seán Street
NEW PODCAST AHOY!
The British Broadcasting Century ep 106
6BM Bournemouth: The End of the Beginning at the BBC
On its 102nd birthday, the tale + voices of 8th BBC station 6BM Bournemouth, thanks to @seanstreet.bsky.social
+ the future with radio futurologist @james.crid.land.
Enjoy!
pod.fo/e/33efe8
The British Broadcasting Century ep 106
6BM Bournemouth: The End of the Beginning at the BBC
On its 102nd birthday, the tale + voices of 8th BBC station 6BM Bournemouth, thanks to @seanstreet.bsky.social
+ the future with radio futurologist @james.crid.land.
Enjoy!
pod.fo/e/33efe8
The British Broadcasting Century with Paul Kerensa: #106 6BM Bournemouth: The End of the Beginning at the BBC... and James Cridland
"6BM Bournemouth sends hearty greetings to the world... We do hope you can smell the pines!" On 17 October 1923 (oh and look at the date this podcast landed - 102 years apart), the BBC opened its ...
pod.fo
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
NEW PODCAST AHOY!
The British Broadcasting Century ep 106
6BM Bournemouth: The End of the Beginning at the BBC
On its 102nd birthday, the tale + voices of 8th BBC station 6BM Bournemouth, thanks to @seanstreet.bsky.social
+ the future with radio futurologist @james.crid.land.
Enjoy!
pod.fo/e/33efe8
The British Broadcasting Century ep 106
6BM Bournemouth: The End of the Beginning at the BBC
On its 102nd birthday, the tale + voices of 8th BBC station 6BM Bournemouth, thanks to @seanstreet.bsky.social
+ the future with radio futurologist @james.crid.land.
Enjoy!
pod.fo/e/33efe8
Reposted by Seán Street
...and @seanstreet.bsky.social's wonderful 1973 documentary on 6BM Bournemouth is a must-listen: soundcloud.com/seans-wirele...
6BM Calling
1973 Local Radio Documentary about bournemouth's first radio station, produced and presented by Seán Street
soundcloud.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
...and @seanstreet.bsky.social's wonderful 1973 documentary on 6BM Bournemouth is a must-listen: soundcloud.com/seans-wirele...
I’m giving a reading of recent work on 21 November organised by the lovely Liverpool Poetry Space. I would love to see friends there. (it’s free, but bookable) Details in the link. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
An Evening with Seán Street
An evening where Seán Street will read from his recent work
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October 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m giving a reading of recent work on 21 November organised by the lovely Liverpool Poetry Space. I would love to see friends there. (it’s free, but bookable) Details in the link. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
Reposted by Seán Street
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.
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
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.
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.
Long awaited, and at 1250 pages as weighty as expected.
October 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Long awaited, and at 1250 pages as weighty as expected.
October 2024, with Michael Longley.
October 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
October 2024, with Michael Longley.
Reposted by Seán Street
September 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM