It Says Here
$23.36
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
20 December 2020
Summary
It Says Here is Sean O’Brien’s follow-up to his celebrated collection Europa, and has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor. Set against shorter, ruthlessly focused pieces - vicious and scabrous political sketches and satires charting the growth of extremism and the disintegration of democracy - are meditations on the imaginative life, dream and remembrance, time and recurrence. There are elegies for friends and fellow poets; paranoiac, brooding pastorals; oth…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509840427 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509840427 |
| Author: | Sean O'Brien |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 20 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 154mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
In both technical mastery and his belief in the seriousness of the poetic art, O’Brien is WH Auden’s true inheritor.
In both technical mastery and his belief in the seriousness of the poetic art, O’Brien is WH Auden’s true inheritor. * Irish Times *
Sean O'Brien
Sean O’Brien’s poetry has received numerous awards, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize (three times), the E.M Forster Award, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize. His work has been published in several languages.
He is also a novelist, critic, editor, translator, playwright, and broadcaster. Born in London, he grew up in Hull. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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