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

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Carvings(1982)

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John Kliphan has died in Paris. He was a poet and founded the 'Live Poets Society' to give readings by poets from different cultures and backgrounds during the 1990s. Seán Street read at many of these events, and here offers his o...

Remembering John Kliphan...

Hugh Bonneville will be narrator for the Conquering the Antarctic tour, which begins in Birmingham on 3 February: http://www.cityoflondonsinfonia.co.uk/news...

Seventy Degrees Below Zero...

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...