Sean Street

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Seán Street's work grows out of a tradition that includes Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and the prose of Richard Jefferies. In his poems it is still bearing fruit that is at once extremely refreshing and extremely English. Charles Tomlinson

Street unearths loss, memory and redemption from English terrain like few other poets. The Times

Seán Street is one of the best contemporary poets of the English landscape, but not an over-reverential one. Christopher Somerville, The Daily Telegraph

He has a great ear and a great sense of the world as parable and echo chamber. Piers Plowright

I found myself reading The Broadcast as a realistic and moving metaphor for the role language plays in the world at large, and in particular for the role poetic language can play in survival. Anne Cluysenaar, Scintilla

He is in the great tradition of English poetry, of Hardy, Edward Thomas and Larkin, and he uses their skill and taut control of word and line and image. James Gibson, The Thomas Hardy Journal

Featured Publication

The A to Z of British Radio
(Scarecrow Press, 2009)

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After highly successful concerts at Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff and Cheltenham, the City of London Sinfonia's Conquering the Antarctic tour, featuring actor Hugh Bonneville and tenor Robert Murray, takes a break before ...

London Performance for Antarctic Work...

About to go into production is an edition of the BBC Radio 3 series of innovative features, 'Between the Ears' in which Seán Street explores the famous poem, 'Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again' by Xu Zhimo. The poem, writt...

Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again...

The Poetry of Radio - The Colour of Sound

'This book will be a lasting treasure for students, professionals and artists in the field of radio and sound programme making. It is a brilliant ...

3 Feb. 'The Poetry of Radio, The Colour of Sound' published...