Author: Sean O'Brien

Marissa and Claras mom is the newly elected president of the United States and they havent experienced much freedom lately. While exploring the Whi...

This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will...

A new collection by Sean OBrien Audens true inheritor, and one of our wisest poetic chronographers is not just a literary event, but also, invari...

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to au...

Europa, Sean O''Brien''s ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book. Europe is not a place we can choose to leave: it is also a shar...

Sean OBriens stories are all lit with the unmistakable hue of the Victorian gothic: from the rantings of a deranged psychiatric patient, to the app...

Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly ref...

'He's one of the best players I've ever played with. As a forward, I'd say he's the best.' Johnny SextonSeán O'Brien does not come from a tradition...

Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater. As he writes the official history of Blake's, a minor pu...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

November is Sean OBriens first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T....

With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe wa...

'This is the night mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order...' -- W.H. AudenWordsworth was the first laureate of locomot...