Prose
Seán Street’s prose may be divided into three main categories – books relating to radio, and those relating to poetry and literature and topographical works.
Radio
A Concise History of British Radio
Crossing the Ether: Pre-War Public Service Radio and Commercial Competition in the UK(John Libbey, 2006)
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Historical Dictionary of British Radio 
The A to Z of British Radio
The Poetry of Radio - The Colour of SoundLiterature
A Remembered Land : Literary Recollections of Life in the Countryside, 1880-1914(Ed., Michael Joseph)
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The Dymock Poets
The Wreck of the Deutschland Topographical / Other
Petersfield – A Pictorial Past
Tales of Old Dorset 
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Hampshire Miscellany Comments
“The Dymock Poets
Seán Street's account of The Dymock Poets is hardly improvable as an example of realist-narrative criticism.
John Powell Ward”
Seán Street's account of The Dymock Poets is hardly improvable as an example of realist-narrative criticism.
John Powell Ward”
“A Concise History of British Radio
This is a much-needed book: a coherent and dramatic sweep from the first scientifically-based attempts to send sound messages over distance to the rich and sometimes rude complexity of 21st century digital broadcasting. Seán Street, who is a scholar, a poet and a radio practitioner is ideally placed to lead us on this exhilarating journey, and everything you need to know quickly about 80 years of British radio is here.
Piers Plowright”
This is a much-needed book: a coherent and dramatic sweep from the first scientifically-based attempts to send sound messages over distance to the rich and sometimes rude complexity of 21st century digital broadcasting. Seán Street, who is a scholar, a poet and a radio practitioner is ideally placed to lead us on this exhilarating journey, and everything you need to know quickly about 80 years of British radio is here.
Piers Plowright”
“Crossing the Ether
A highly readable, well-researched and revealing analysis of the social and cultural factors that affected the development of UK commericlal radio. Seán Street has produced a work of significant scholarship.
The Radio Journal”
A highly readable, well-researched and revealing analysis of the social and cultural factors that affected the development of UK commericlal radio. Seán Street has produced a work of significant scholarship.
The Radio Journal”
“The Historical Dictionary of British Radio
The Historical Dictionary of British Radio is a highly useful reference work. I would unhesitatingly recommend this to any undergraduate student trying to get a grip on the subject, and it would also provide a useful resource for any scholar of British radio history.
Richard Rudin, Liverpool John Moores University”
The Historical Dictionary of British Radio is a highly useful reference work. I would unhesitatingly recommend this to any undergraduate student trying to get a grip on the subject, and it would also provide a useful resource for any scholar of British radio history.
Richard Rudin, Liverpool John Moores University”
“The Wreck of the Deutschland
Seán Street's book is engrossing from start to finish. As a sea-story it is as riveting as any of C.S. Forester's.
Patricia Beer, London Review of Books”
Seán Street's book is engrossing from start to finish. As a sea-story it is as riveting as any of C.S. Forester's.
Patricia Beer, London Review of Books”
“The Poetry of Radio - The Colour of Sound
Seán Street has written a seminal and elegant book on the poetics of radio. It is intellectually and creatively rooted in qualitative research and makes an original contribution to the scholarship on the relationship between poetry and the new medium of sound literature that has blossomed as a result of the onset of the radio age from the early part of the twentieth century. He is a veritable poet and professor of radio himself and brings to the text all of the passion, intelligence and T.S. Eliot’s description of ‘the auditory imagination’ present in his own creative feature making. 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 and masterful achievement.
Tim Crook, Goldsmiths College, University of London”
Seán Street has written a seminal and elegant book on the poetics of radio. It is intellectually and creatively rooted in qualitative research and makes an original contribution to the scholarship on the relationship between poetry and the new medium of sound literature that has blossomed as a result of the onset of the radio age from the early part of the twentieth century. He is a veritable poet and professor of radio himself and brings to the text all of the passion, intelligence and T.S. Eliot’s description of ‘the auditory imagination’ present in his own creative feature making. 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 and masterful achievement.
Tim Crook, Goldsmiths College, University of London”
