Cousin Coat: Selected Poems, 1976-2001 - Brossura

O'Brien, Sean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330490974 ISBN 13: 9780330490979

Casa editrice: Macmillan Pub Ltd, 2002

Riassunto

Sean O'Brien is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted English poets now writing, and as a leading poet-critic. Cousin Coat collects the best of O'Brien's work to date; long-time O'Brien aficionados will be grateful to have so much of the early work available again, while recent converts will be delighted to find that O'Brien's boisterous wit, intelligence and astonishing technical fluency were as much in evidence at the outset of his career as they are now. While some of O'Brien's mises en scene and dramatis personae have remained constant over the years - the urban dystopia, the train, the rain, the underground, the canal, the lugubrious procession of conductors, policemen, head teachers and detectives - their shadows have deepened with O'Brien's sense of their historicity and mythic power. His imaginative landscape has become impressively varied: as well as blackly paranoid fantasy and scabrous political critique, O'Brien's work now encompasses English pastoral, comic set-piece and metaphysical lyric, and shows a growing fascination with song-form and dramatic verse. Cousin Coat represents the best introduction to one of the most significant English poets of the last thirty years. `The bard of urban Britain' The Times `A collection which holds numerous satisfactions for anyone with a sense of humour and a political consciousness' Guardian on Ghost Train `The most invigorating new book of poems I've read this year' Sunday Telegraph on Downriver

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L'autore:

Sean O’Brien has written seven collections of poetry. The Drowned Book (2007) won the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001 appeared in 2002. His other work includes the book of essays The Deregulated Muse (1998), the verse plays The Birds (2002) and Keepers of the Flame (2003) and a verse translation of Dante’s Inferno (2006). In 2008 his collection of short stories, The Silence Room, was published, followed in 2009 by his novel Afterlife. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

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• Editore: Macmillan Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330490974
• ISBN 13: 9780330490979
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 204