Description
| Product ID: | 9781447294030 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Title: | The Drowned Book |
| Authors: | Author: Sean O'Brien |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Picador's second collection from one of the finest English poets of the last fifty years <p><b>With an introduction by Helen Dunmore</b><br><br><i>Come for a walk down the river road,</i><br><i>For though you're all a long time dead</i><br><i>The waters part to let us pass</i><br><br><i>The way we'd go on summer nights</i><br><i>In the times we were children</i><br><i>And thought we were lovers.</i><br><br><i>The Drowned Book</i> 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. <br><br>Winner of both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes, <i>The Drowned Book</i> is an extraordinary collection, a classic from one of the leading poets of our time.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-06-18 |
