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The Bonfire Party - by Sean O'Brien (Paperback)

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  • The Bonfire Party - Sean O'Brien's twelfth collection - considers conditions at the limit of things, where the world can seem as mysterious as it is empty.
  • About the Author: 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.
  • 96 Pages
  • Poetry, Subjects & Themes

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The Bonfire Party is the twelfth collection from Sean O'Brien, three-time winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry.



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The Bonfire Party - Sean O'Brien's twelfth collection - considers conditions at the limit of things, where the world can seem as mysterious as it is empty. This metaphysical cast of mind has deepened through O'Brien's later works, and amongst The Bonfire Party's reflections on love, history and recurrence, the climate emergency is also a peremptory and nightmarish presence.

In a central sequence, O'Brien writes into the rich imaginative climate of George Simenon in his Maigret novels. These poems are both 'homage and transposition', notes the critic Patrick McGuinness, 'but also a poetic close reading of the smells and tastes and moral atmospheres of one of most singular pairings in literature - Maigret and his creator, Simenon.'

The working of the imagination itself emerges as O'Brien's true subject, where the fact of the world and the imagined order of literature and art begin to merge. The Bonfire party finds Sean O'Brien advancing the intellectual inquiries for which he is regarded as one of our wisest living poets.



About the Author



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 Collected Poems appeared in 2012. His work has been published in several languages. His novel Once Again Assembled Here was published in 2016. He is also a 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.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.76 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Subjects & Themes
Publisher: Picador UK
Format: Paperback
Author: Sean O'Brien
Language: English
Street Date: April 14, 2026
TCIN: 1003180596
UPC: 9781035064908
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-6193
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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