Thanks for all the best wishes during and post-hospital. I’m on the mend now, but not quite up to being released into the wild for a week or so. Should be ok for the launch of Candlelight on 12 September though. 👍 www.eventbrite.com/e/sean-stree...
Seán Street at The Hornby Library
Seán Street launches ‘Candlelight’, his new collection that journeys through the darkness of loss towards the light of acceptance.
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Mandy Pannett’s review of Candlelight from the Tears in the Fence blog. tearsinthefence.com/2026/08/03/c...
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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This is a link to Candlelight on the Poetry Book Society website. www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/can...
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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My thanks to Steve Kinrade of Liverpool Noise for this lovely review of Candlelight. liverpoolnoise.com/arts-and-cul...
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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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
Cornish fans at the England-France game display controversial banner. FIFA considers taking action…
Unexpected, unforecast and only light, enough to release the sweet scent of grateful earth.
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.
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.
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.
Poetry Salzburg sent the new collection, Candlelight, to the printers today. John Lucas is remembered in its pages.
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
Reaches sea areas and coastal regions other soaps only dream of… (Thank you Zoë Howe)
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.
“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.
In honour of David Attenborough’s centenary, ducks have been gathering outside our house.
