Candlelight - A Sequence of Poems

(Poetry Salzburg, 2026) http://www.poetrysalzburg.com/candlelight.htm

Available from the Poertry Book Society: 

https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/candlelight-sean-street?srsltid=AfmBOoo-4-ydVHQ__Z0iK47D3kT1Br_OS-uFn3eoHiVFDXlZ0YqN-kbD'

"[...] in this beautiful, deeply moving collection of poems there are small portals, thresholds and open gates, there is colour and starlight and candles that light 'sparks in a pool, / a movement bright in deepest dusk / with beads down the rich glass searching.' There is gratitude and joy for every moment of living, for 'being a part / of the whole green flickering thing / while it lasts, for now.' ("Q & A")"

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"Candlelight offers an ideal introduction to a writer whose career has consistently crossed artistic boundaries. Alongside numerous poetry collections, Street has enjoyed an internationally respected career in broadcasting and academia, writing extensively about sound, landscape, memory and the spoken word. Those interests are not separate disciplines but complementary strands that flow naturally into his poetry, giving it a distinctive voice that is both reflective and deeply attentive. ...'"

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 Wild Track - Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wild-track-9781501397981/

'In this book Seán Street has re-imagined the term 'Wildtrack', and guides the reader/listener from when sound was "recorded" solely through experience and then replayed from memory, imagination, poetry and prose, clearly across time, harnessing text with the developing role of technology to create a narrative flow as affecting as a woodland chorus in spring.'
Chris Watson, wildlife sound recordist