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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“...an important poem, a major long poem of the 1960s... Uniformbooks are to be commended for bringing it back into circulation in a format that is both handsome and serviceable.” —Billy Mills blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Book-of-the-Green-Man-by-Ronald-Johnson/9781910010044 #PoetryDay
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Moi, as portrayed by Rick Adams
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A happy time at Liverpool Central Library talking about sound and the written word with a lovely engaged group of writers. At the end, ‘I’ll never see sound the same again’ one said, and I’m taking that.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kyle Bravo
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Soul Music from BBC Radio 4, featuring Stevie Nicks’s Landslide. Includes contributions from my daughter Zoë Howe, author of a biography of Nicks. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Soul Music - Landslide by Fleetwood Mac - BBC Sounds
The enduring song of quiet courage and acceptance in the face of passing time.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gorwel Owen’s new album sounds ancient and is the antidote to an uncertain present and future. gorwelowen.bandcamp.com/album/yn-iac...
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Yn iach eto teimlo tant (2026), by Gorwel Owen
10 track album
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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've put my 'Three Poems of War' together here, with videos, 2 of them published in @internationaltimes.bsky.social, the third on its own. Here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/09/reve...
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Revenge on Culture poem published in International Times, one poem with 2 others to comprise Three Poems of War. Videos, links, etc.
I’ve had another poem published on (or is it in?) International Times and, as ever, I would like to thank poetry editor Rupert Loydell for t...
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At The Hornby Library.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Mandy Pannett’s review of Candlelight from the Tears in the Fence blog. tearsinthefence.com/2026/08/03/c...
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Candlelight by Seán Street (Poetry Salzburg)
A candle is a powerful instant symbol that communicates across cultures and languages with associations of light, imagination, remembrance, renewal and hope, but also connects with transience and m…
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is a link to Candlelight on the Poetry Book Society website. www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/can...
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Candlelight by Seán Street | Poetry Salzburg Pamphlet Series 42 - The Poetry Book Society
"Seán Street excels in capturing the significance of the fleeting moment, when, for instance 'the fir tree scuffles with pigeons'. He has, after a life's work in radio, and a lifelong love of music, a...
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My thanks to Steve Kinrade of Liverpool Noise for this lovely review of Candlelight. liverpoolnoise.com/arts-and-cul...
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Sean Street's Candlelight Finds Beauty, Memory And Hope In Everyday Moments | Liverpool Noise
Discover Candlelight by Sean Street, a moving poetry collection exploring memory, loss, listening and hope through beautifully observed everyday moments.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Today’s tutorial in learning Scouse dialect while posting a parcel: Counter clerk: Sarit Me: Pardon? CC: Sarit Me: Sorry? CC: Sarit? Is there anything else? Me: ah, yes, that’s it, no,nothing else thanks. Every day’s a school day
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Cornish fans at the England-France game display controversial banner. FIFA considers taking action…
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Unexpected, unforecast and only light, enough to release the sweet scent of grateful earth.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looks like Clacton might get a shower…
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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
1777: Ricked my meadow-hay in most delicate order without one drop of rain. A large crop: 9 jobbs. Left some grass in each mead to cut for the horses.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
15 July sees the official publication of Candlelight. www.poetrysalzburg.com Thank you to Wolfgang Görtschacher at Poetry Salzburg & to Jan Fortune. The sequence owes itself, as so often for me,to the near sacred writings of Gaston Bachelard, notably his last great essay, The Flame of a Candle.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This sumptuous book of poems and photographs by @robertsheppard.bsky.social & Trev Eales has many strata & is a beautiful, rich, moving testament to the marks human life makes on landscape.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Not homunculi - just tiny treasured pieces of Place
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Poetry Salzburg sent the new collection, Candlelight, to the printers today. John Lucas is remembered in its pages.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Sylvia Beach & James Joyce #Bloomsday
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 08/06/2026
Nick Cooke's 'Between the Ears' is a cheeky poem written in celebration of another IS&T published poet, Seán Street / @seanstreet.bsky.social whose 80th birthday was last week. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/nick-cooke-2/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Snail #80thBirthday
Picture of a snail with antennae facing the viewer. Title: Between the Ears. Quotes: 'Molluscous receivers, would that you could turn your talents inwards, and pick up' and 'all that goes on in the cerebral swamp that separates you,' Poet: Nick Cooke.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Mahler 6…
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Reaches sea areas and coastal regions other soaps only dream of… (Thank you Zoë Howe)
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Storm comes
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Morning light on old stone, somewhere in North Wales
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Glass Basin. Turkey, c. 1545 (V & A Museum)
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
RIP Sonny
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A fork in the road
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
After nearly a century
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
To have once in a lifetime shared a Radio 3 microphone with Martin Carthy is worth the price of admission alone. Happy 85th birthday sir.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👍
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” — Gustav Mahler, who died on 18 May, 1911, at the age of 50.
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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
1777: 8 swifts appear: house-martins in abundance.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In honour of David Attenborough’s centenary, ducks have been gathering outside our house.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thinking about the passing recently of Nedra Talley Ross, the last of the original Ronettes, sent me back to a page in The Sound of a Room, recalling the effect the Spector Wall of Sound had on me - and the future of pop music recording - back in 1963, with thanks to David Toop.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May (1929) Eric Ravilious
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
LB reunites with MTT.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Thomas Hardy: A Wessex May Day.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Sandford St Martin Radio Awards judging panel: Navid Akhtar, Mark Lawson, Felicity Finch and me: Church House, Westminster.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The Royal Meteorological Society blog has now been published, focusing on the relationship between the Shipping Forecast and poetry, inspired by the recent anthology by Rob Stepney and Kathy Clugson. www.rmets.org/metmatters/a...
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And now the Shipping Forecast: the maritime report that poets can’t resist
Rob Stepney and Kathy Clugston, who many times read “the Ships” on BBC radio, explain why this iconic broadcast is also a honey pot for poets.
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 04/04/2026
'Candlelight' by Seán Street commemorates someone dear who is not named in the poem but remembered vividly through shared experiences in Paris. @seanstreet.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sean-street-3/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #SacreCoeur
View from inside Sacre Coer Cathedral looking out over the city of Paris. Title: Candlelight. Quotes: 'We lit a candle for you that day in Sacre Coeur, under its white-flame dome as high as Paris could go and still be Paris,' Poet: Seán Street.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
From Alan Bennett’s latest published journals, ‘Enough Said’. As an aside, I wonder if a phone conversation between Alan Bennett and Alan Titchmarsh would be like some kind of sonic mirror?
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In Levison Wood’s new book, The Great Tree Story, he recounts how, when visiting the legendary site of the Garden of Eden in Iraq, he was met with a locked gate and a sign which read, ‘The Tree of Knowledge closed for holidays.’
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Thanks to Helen Ivory for publishing ‘Candlelight’ in Ink Sweat and Tears on Easter Weekend.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Another favourite by the late great Glen Baxter, first seen in the days when I used to subscribe to regular deliveries from the Poetry Book Society.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
What a way to leave your old job
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Here's a local news write up about the WAC Campaign's submission to the Charter Review - twinned with the usual weak quote from the press office. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BBC archive changes at Caversham Park mean research 'impossible'
The changes at Caversham Park, Berkshire, mean the centre is only open on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Cherry Blossom and Magnolia, from Kai (vocabulary of flowers) compiled and illustrated by Shimanda Mitsufusa and Ono Ransan, 1750-65. (British Library)
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