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Time Between Tides:
Seán Street
Publisher: Rockingham Press
Price: £7.99
ISBN: 978-1-904851332
Format: Paperback
Size: 210 x 140 mm, 107 pp
Pub. date: April 2010
Genre: Poetry
• "Seán Street is one of the best contemporary poets of the English landscape, but not an over-reverential one." - Christopher Somerville, The Daily Telegraph
About Time Between Tides by Seán Street
Time Between Tides, Street's seventh poetry collection, brings together new poems, written since Radio and Other Poems (Rockingham, ISBN: 978-1-873468685) appeared in 1999, and his selection from six previous books. These new poems embrace travel, landscape, literary history and film, and include a sequence entitled 'The Broadcast', based on CBC's Fisheries Broadcast: possibly the longest-running program in North American radio history.
About the author: Seán Street is a poet, broadcaster, writer and academic. He continues to make feature programmes for BBC Radios 3 and 4, has recently published two ground-breaking histories of radio in the UK and is Professor and Director of the Centre for Broadcasting History Research at Bournemouth University.
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John Barclay
Performance Poet
John Barclay is a writer, entertainer and performance poet based in Dorset, England. Deftly crafted pieces in styles to suit their subjects, his poems are dramatic rather than descriptive, in-your-face rather than introspective. Whether angry, moving, surreal, witty or daft, John presents them with charm and theatrical flair, proving that poetry has come out of the dusty bookcase into the real world, or at least the world of entertainment.
In 2005 he brought out a collection of poems called 'The Blood of Others'. He has written plays, sketches, comedy material, song lyrics, newspaper articles and travel memoirs. He is currently preparing a book of the recent journey he made around the world without flying.
October 29th - 31st 2010
For more information: Poole Literary Festival
Initially funded by
(Photo L to R: Ray & Brenda Wills, Peter John Cooper, Pam Fudge, John Barclay)
Our group was launched on the 18th November 2009 and we were opened by Performance Poet Mr John Barclay 'go for it girl, her creed'- the second part of our evening had a reading from Performance Poet Mr Peter John Cooper; putting the Co-operative into poetic verse.
(Photo: Performance Poet Peter John Cooper)
Our cake especially baked by Annalisa, was cut by the Author Pam Fudge; Pam also gave us a reading of some of her own poetry. Throughout the evening there were also readings from Mary Paterson, Ray Wills, Jane Skellett and Anthony Hayward. A great evening was had by one and all, and the group received some very positive feedback with an increase in membership.
(Photo L to R: Mary Paterson, Annalisa Hayward, Pam Fudge)
