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Poetry Book Society Choice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533627466001,"sku":"GOR006506742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53404847538449,"sku":"GOR009147863","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852241616.jpg?v=1751412214"},{"product_id":"tell-me-this-is-normal-book-julie-o-callaghan-9781852247904","title":"Tell Me This is Normal","description":"Tell Me This Is Normal is a generous selection of Julie O'Callaghan's poetry, ranging from the Edible Anecdotes her readers gorged on in the 1980s to her later work confronting a very 'scary' 21st century with an armoury of lively and defiant language - as well as a baseball bat under the bed. She is a singularly acute observer of human behaviour, with a sharp Swiftian eye and an alert ear that have made her one of the finest and funniest practitioners of the monologue in poetry.Yet, notably in the poems charting her father's illness and death, she can also strike an elegiac and heartbreaking note, while her poems set in the court of Heian Japan unscroll with great poignancy and delicacy. Among the most admired poets of her generation - whose work has been championed by Wendy Cope, George Szirtes, Selima Hill and Carol Ann Duffy - Julie O'Callaghan writes poems which 'seem effortless and are immediately accessible and yet achieve great emotional weight by the lightest of means' (Michael Hartnett Award citation). Poetry Book Society Recommendation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49615863283985,"sku":"GOR001781252","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055840559377,"sku":"NIN9781852247904","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852247908.jpg?v=1750931083"},{"product_id":"no-can-do-book-julie-o-callaghan-9781852245115","title":"No Can Do","description":"Julie OCallaghans new collection, No Can Do, ranges in tone from the poignant to the caustic and in subject-matter from the sublime to the hilarious. The book ends with an affecting sequence of elegiac poems, shocking in its starkness, adding to her reputation as a highly original and unpredictable poet. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49619209322769,"sku":"GOR007205187","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852245115.jpg?v=1751457605"},{"product_id":"two-barks-book-julie-o-callaghan-9781852244279","title":"Two Barks","description":"When Julie OCallaghan reads her poems to teenagers, the teachers stand at the classroom door to eavesdrop. The secret of her success as an acclaimed childrens writer is that  far from writing down to young readers  her poems identify totally with them. Illustrated by Martin Fish.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49619751862545,"sku":"GOR013641679","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49645692518673,"sku":"GOR013631814","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0092JP77G.jpg?v=1751457099"},{"product_id":"magnum-mysterium-book-julie-o-callaghan-9781780375144","title":"Magnum Mysterium","description":"Magnum Mysterium is Irish American poet Julie O’Callaghan’s first collection since Tell Me This Is Normal: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems (2008).  Her new poems have evolved from the early monologues – written in American demotic – to poems of heartache on the death of her husband, the poet Dennis O’Driscoll. But even in these harrowing poems she never loses her ear for the absurdities of modern life – including the grieving process where she can “see” her husband alive and doing what he loves ('Cyber You'):        I need to see you       living and breathing.       I go to YouTube       and there you are being you       (the tiny you)       with the tie I bought you       for Christmas       sitting on a chair       on a stage in Santa Fe       asking Seamus questions.       Eternally.  In Magnum Mysterium Julie O’Callaghan has continued writing poems which 'seem effortless and are immediately accessible and achieve great emotional weight by the lightest of means' (Michael Hartnett Award citation).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49651864437009,"sku":"GOR010822469","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50401280065809,"sku":"CIN178037514XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/178037514X.jpg?v=1751185186"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-julie-o-callaghan.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}