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Selected Poems Bernard O’Donoghue

Bernard O’Donoghue

The Selected Poems of Bernard O’Donoghue make an essential, accessible introduction to a beguiling and powerful writer.

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£14.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571236381
Date Published
03.04.2008
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Summary

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, Bernard O’Donoghue’s poems have long captivated readers with their lyricism, their grace and with what John Burnside has called their ‘scrupulous honesty’. This judicious selection, made by the author himself, draws on twenty years of work and presents O’Donoghue at his most mesmeric: often recalling the rural Cork of his upbringing as seen against the exile of his adulthood, ever alive to the desire but impossibility of return.

BernardO'Donoghue

Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co Cork in 1945. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. He has published six collections of poetry, including Gunpowder, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and The Seasons of Cullen Church, shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize. His Selected…

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