The Beautiful Librarians - Softcover

O'Brien, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447287517 ISBN 13: 9781447287513

Verlag: Picador, 2015

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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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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 work has been published in several languages. He is also a novelist, 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.

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Sean O'Brien's new collection The Beautiful Librarians is, appropriately, a stock-taking of sorts: throughout, O'Brien invokes those unsung figures in our culture overlooked by both capital and official accounts, from infantrymen and wrestlers to old crooners in the hotel bar. But none are 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 twelve-bar blues sung by Ovid, a hymn to a grey rose, a writing course from hell, and a very French exercise in waiting, all of which serve to demonstrate O'Brien's increasingly Audenesque range of form and theme. The Beautiful Librarians is a book of dramatic variety, in which every poem opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape - each is drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance, without any sacrifice of either lyric force or feeling.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1447287517
• ISBN 13: 9781447287513
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64
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