Selected Poems Bernard O'Donoghue

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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. An essential, accessible introduction to a beguiling and powerful writer.

Bernard O'Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co. Cork in 1945. He is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, where he teaches Medieval English. He is the author of four collections of poems, and winner of the Whitbread Award for Poetry. His translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published in 2006.