This Friday, 6.00pm, Quaker Meeting House, School Lane Liverpool: I’ll be talking about some recent work relating to sound & memory. Thanks to Liverpool Noise for this piece, which explains what it’s all about & has a link to free tickets. Do come along if you can. liverpoolnoise.com/arts-and-cul...

Ladybird Books, 1972: Making a Transistor #Radio.

Someone somewhere will ALWAYS notice.

I want to dedicate the event to the memory of the founder of Shoestring Press, John Lucas, who passed away recently. I’ll be reading from my 2 Shoestring books, as well as some new work John had originally planned for a new collection this month by Shoestring, now closed with immediate effect.

Whether or not intended, there are layers of meaning in the hunting press pack being placed under George Orwell’s statue and quote at BBC Broadcasting House, London.

Unpublished late poems by Charles Tomlinson, marking ten years since his death. These have been transcribed from Charles’s notebooks by his daughters, Juliet and Justine, and published by Dare-Gale Press. This little book is a poignant jewel.

Low tide, Llandanwg.

My Halloween poem from Journey Into Space, written in time of Covid. About other stuff too…

W.H. Hudson meets the ‘ghost’ of Richard Jefferies… (From Wild Track)

There they go

5th Anniversary. The Sound of a Room , published 24 October, 2020.

Remembering John Lucas today, with this extract from Matt Simpson’s poem, ‘Moonlight on Aegina’ from Simpson’s Collected Poems (Shoestring Press, 2011)

20 October 2016, in Hampstead with Piers Plowright.

NEW PODCAST AHOY! The British Broadcasting Century ep 106 6BM Bournemouth: The End of the Beginning at the BBC On its 102nd birthday, the tale + voices of 8th BBC station 6BM Bournemouth, thanks to @seanstreet.bsky.social + the future with radio futurologist @james.crid.land. Enjoy! pod.fo/e/33efe8

...and @seanstreet.bsky.social's wonderful 1973 documentary on 6BM Bournemouth is a must-listen: soundcloud.com/seans-wirele...

I’m giving a reading of recent work on 21 November organised by the lovely Liverpool Poetry Space. I would love to see friends there. (it’s free, but bookable) Details in the link. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

October 12th from A Walk in Winter (Enitharmon Press, 1989). My father and his father both died on this date, 35 years apart. We all have our own ‘October 12ths’. Call it by any other date, it’s the same. Dates - like places - can grow from being ordinary to extraordinary in an instant.

Long awaited, and at 1250 pages as weighty as expected.

October 2024, with Michael Longley.

#Haiku Approaching they saw tunnels at the end of light then it dawned on them

John Lucas has passed away. No words to express feelings at this time. I, as many other writers and poets, owe him an immense debt as a publisher, a critic & friend. On a card I had from him only a week ago he’d written: ‘We shall meet for a drink again.’ I look forward to that John.

TV in Liverpool Heart Hospital waiting room currently showing episodes of Doc Martin. 🧐

Bournemouth Radio station 2CR (Two Counties Radio) went on air, 15 September, 1980 - 45 years ago.

#Haiku Approaching they saw tunnels at the end of light then it dawned on them

Our latest podcast is out now - on the first Radio Times. From that issue: - the front page - the first cartoon (on listening at a village hall) - the first letter (from Spain) - my favourite ad ("Height increased in 30 days"!) The podcast awaits your ears. Do it now, whatever your height.

Wild Track: currently not a bad price direct from Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wild-trac...

Radio Times, 10 September 1937: ‘Memories’ number

My review of Jeremy Hooker’s recent collection, Preludes, (Shearsman) just published in the Richard Jefferies Society Autumn Newsletter.

Whether spoken aloud or read silently to the self, Chris McCabe’s new collection from @ninearchespress.bsky.social is a richly sonic experience from cover to cover. The whole thing is a journey made up of stepping stones that ring as you touch them.

At the start of a new academic year it seems fitting to recall the motto of the old alma mater: ‘Pretia Aldi aequabimus’

"Wonderfully eclectic, entirely delightful, learnedly informal, gloriously quirky, deeply knowledgeable, and totally original essays, held up to the light with absolute precision, with playfulness and above all with passion" – John Wyver stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...

Very nice to have ‘Donegal’ present as part of this handsome new anthology of the Shipping Forecast, and to be an adjacent neighbour of Zaffar Kunial within it.

When sometime soon they seek to produce evidence as a reminder that there was once civilised creativity, this might be a useful artefact.

Apache Mountain Spirits Dance archive.org/details/78_y...

BBC ARCHIVES observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

For poetry friends from Dorset, UK, I wanted to let you know about a new Stanza group, based in Dorchester. It's been running quietly over the Summer (I've recently started attending myself) and it would be cool to see new faces - poster attached... high quality poetry chat and feedback guaranteed!!

“Damon Krukowski insists on sound as a material force in the world… a resource that’s exploited but that could be liberated. The questions raised and answers offered will reverberate through your mind long after you close the book.” —@simonreynolds.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A brief moment from that much-loved work, ‘The Compassionate Cello’ 😉

The Athenaeum, Liverpool.

Gilbert White, Selborne and sound: nightjars and the Portsmouth Evening Gun.

A corner of Sunday

Repeat this week on BBC Radio 4 Extra of the 2008 documentary about pre-war commercial radio rivals to the BBC including Radio Luxembourg and Radio Normandy as told by @seanstreet.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Some years ago, Rockingham Press published a book of mine called Time Between Tides, in which there was a poem called The Sacrifice. It seems the time to revisit it. #Gaza