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November

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title November
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sean O'Brien
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780330535007
ClassificationsDewey:821.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 1 April 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A brilliant new collection from the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize winning poet November is Sean O'Brien's first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the uncountable lost: lost sleep, connections, muses, books, the ghosts and gardens of childhood. Ultimately, these lead the poet to contemplate the most troubling absences: O'Brien's elegies for his parents and friends form the heart of this book, and are the source of its pervasive note of depart. Elsewhere - as if a French window stood open to an English room - the islands, canals, railway stations and undergrounds of O'Brien's landscape are swept by a strikingly Gallic air. This new note lends O'Brien's recent poems a reinvigorated sense of the imaginative possible: November shows O'Brien at the height of his powers, with his intellect and imagination as gratifyingly restless as ever.

Author Biography

Sean O'Brien is a poet, critic, playwright, broadcaster, anthologist and editor. He grew up in Hull and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His six collections of poetry to date have all won awards, most recently The Drowned Book (Picador, 2007) which won both the Forward Prize for best collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize.