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Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central figures in our culture, often overlooked by both capital and official account. Here we find infantrymen, wrestlers, old lushes in the hotel bar - but none more heroic than the librarians of the title, those silent and silencing guardians of literature and knowledge who, the poet reminds us, also had lives of their own to be celebrated. Elsewhere we find a 12-bar blues sung by Ovid, a hymn to a grey rose, a writing course from hell, and a very French exercise in waiting. A book of terrific variety of theme and form, The Beautiful Librarians is another bravura performance from the most garlanded English poet of his generation.
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New collection of astonishing variety and virtuosity from the leading English poet of his generation
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Praise for November:
'Perhaps the most moving poems that he has yet written' Helen Dunmore, Guardian
'[A] richly thoughtful take on life in contemporary Britain . . . O'Brien makes a deep music out of human and political engagement' Independent
'A witty and entertaining collection, flawless in its social observation, sometimes very moving, and in places rising to eloquence and grandeur of an almost Dantean kind. He can be very funny . . . The humour in November can be enjoyed at once, but every deeply serious poem in this magnificent collection (and there are many) is worth the longer effort' Sunday Times
'November will be a joy for anyone who cares about the word-perfect use of language, and savours piercing emotions uttered with rueful delicacy rather than a mad screech. The wintry sadness of O'Brien's poetry is oddly uplifting, because his imagery is so quick, nimble and dashing' Sunday Telegraph
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1509802975
- ISBN 13 9781509802975
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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