Sean O'Brien: Collected Poems

This collection, drawing on almost 40 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 theater 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 theInferno. 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 The Leading English Poet Working Today. Machine Generated Contents Note: The Indoor Park (1983) -- The Snowfield -- Walking -- Air -- Station Song -- Le Depart -- The Park By The Railway -- Stories -- Anne-marie, The Flower Girl -- Victorians -- The Disappointment -- The Police -- The Name -- The Brochure -- Clio -- William Ryan's Song In July -- In The Head -- Jazz -- For Lowell George -- The Beat Goes On -- The Next Meeting -- Midsummer's Eve -- Not Sending Cards This Year -- The Widower -- The Seaside Specialist -- Gun Law -- Heatwave -- Late -- Quiet Wedding -- The Lamp -- Tides -- Victims -- From The Narrator's Tale -- Two Finger Exercise -- The Captain's Pipe -- The Amateur God -- The Frighteners (1987) -- In A Military Archive -- The Dampers -- Young Howard -- A Master -- The Realists -- Civilians -- Summertime -- The Red Hospital -- The Allotment -- Trespass -- Song Of The South -- Unregistered -- Terra Nova -- London Road -- The Mechanical Toy Museum -- How Ryan Got His Start In Life -- Ryan At Home Sean O'brien. Includes Indexes. 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 . This collection, drawing on almost 40 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 OBriens work, as well as the enduring strength of his these have helped create a tone and a landscape as immediately recognizable as those of MacNeice, Larkin, or Eliot. OBriens hells and heavens, underworlds and urban dystopias, trains and waterways have formed the imaginative theater for his songs, satires, pastorals, and elegies; throughout, the poems demonstrate OBriens astonishing flair for the dramatic line, where he has inherited the mantle of W. H. Auden. Also included are selections from both OBriens dramatic writing and his acclaimed version of the Inferno .