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Sean O'Brien


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
December 19, 1952


Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic and playwright. Prizes he has won include the Eric Gregory Award (1979), the Somerset Maugham Award (1984), the Cholmondeley Award (1988), the Forward Poetry Prize (1995, 2001 and 2007) and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2007). He is one of only four poets (the others being Ted Hughes, John Burnside and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same collection of poems (The Drowned Book).
Born in London, England, O'Brien grew up in Hull, and was educated at Hymers College and Selwyn College, Cambridge. He has lived since 1990 in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he teaches at the university. He was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at St. Anne's College, Oxford ...more

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White House Clubhouse
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The Drowned Book
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November
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The Beautiful Librarians
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Afterlife
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The Silence Room: Short Sto...
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Once Again Assembled Here
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“But there's a time and a place to go your separate ways, and another time to come together! My mom would say you're using your differences as an excuse to sin against each other.”
― Sean O'Brien, The Reformers vs The Prosperity Gospel
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“But here it is. So pick the bones from that. 'I think we need another tense for dreaming in,' I said, which made an old drunk shake his head and smile.”
― Sean O'Brien, November
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