November by Sean O'brien
November is Sean O’Brien’s first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the uncountable lost: lost sleep, connections, muses, books, the ghosts and gardens of childhood. Ultimately, these lead the poet to contemplate the most troubling absences: O’Brien’s elegies for his parents and friends form the heart of this book, and are the source of its pervasive note of départ. Elsewhere – as if a French window stood open to an English room – the islands, canals, railway stations and undergrounds of O’Brien’s landscape are swept by a strikingly Gallic air. This new note lends O’Brien’s recent poems a reinvigorated sense of the imaginative possible: November shows O’Brien at the height of his powers, with his intellect and imagination as gratifyingly restless as ever.
Sean O’Brien is a poet, critic, playwright, broadcaster, anthologist and editor. He grew up in Hull and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His six collections of poetry to date have all won awards, most recently The Drowned Book (Picador, 2007) which won both the Forward Prize for best collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330535007 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330535005 |
| Title | November |
| Author | Sean O'brien |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2011-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Runner-up for Griffin International Poetry Prize 2012 (Canada), Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2012 (UK), Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2012 (UK), Short-listed for Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection 2011 (UK) |
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