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The Drowned Book

Picador Classic

By (author) Sean O'Brien
Introduction by Helen Dunmore
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Published: 18th Jun 2015
Dimensions: w 130mm h 197mm d 11mm
Weight: 150g
Interest age: From 18 years
ISBN-10: 1447294033
ISBN-13: 9781447294030
Barcode No: 9781447294030
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With an introduction by Helen Dunmore Come for a walk down the river road, For though you're all a long time dead The waters part to let us pass The way we'd go on summer nights In the times we were children And thought we were lovers. The Drowned Book is a work of memory, commemoration and loss, dominated by elegies for those the author has loved and admired. Sean O'Brien's exquisite collection is powerfully affecting, sad and often deeply funny; but it is also a dramatically compelling book - disquieting, even - and full of warnings. As the book unfolds, O'Brien's verse occupies an increasingly dark, subterranean territory - where the waters are rising, threatening to overwhelm and ruin the world above. Winner of both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes, The Drowned Book is an extraordinary collection, a classic from one of the leading poets of our time.

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O'Brien's talent extends far beyond description . . . powerful, resonant and thought-provoking * Guardian * It's almost as though he's seeing into a kind of pool in which the past is there, held in a sort of suspension . . . exhilarating -- Peter Porter