Collected Poems by Sean O'brien
The definitive collection of Sean O'Brien's poetry, drawn from almost 40 years' work.This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety and the consistent quality of O'Brien's work, as well as the enduring strength of his obsessions: these have helped create a tone and a landscape as immediately recognizable as those of MacNeice, Larkin or Eliot. O'Brien's hells and heavens, underworlds and urban dystopias, trains and waterways have formed the imaginative theatre for his songs, satires, pastorals and elegies; throughout, the poems demonstrate O'Brien's astonishing flair for the dramatic line, where he has inherited the mantle of W. H. Auden. Also included are selections from both O'Brien's dramatic writing and his acclaimed version of the Inferno.
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. The Drowned Book won both the Forward Prize for best collection and the T S Eliot Prize. His most recent collection, November, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, the T S Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447217350 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447217357 |
| Title | Collected Poems |
| Author | Sean O'brien |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2012-11-22 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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