About the Author:
Born in London, Sean O’Brien grew up in Hull and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a poet, critic, editor, translator, playwright, broadcaster and novelist. His poetry has won multiple awards, including the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize (three times), and the E M Forster Award. His eighth poetry collection, The Beautiful Librarians, won the 2015 Roehampton Poetry Prize. His second novel, Once Again Assembled Here, was published in 2016, as was Hammersmith, a chapbook of poetry and photographs. 2018 sees the publication of his ninth collection of poetry, Europa, and his second collection of short stories from Comma Press, Quartier Perdu. O'Brien is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Review:
"In O’Brien country you may hear the hoot of a train pulling out of the city, but you’ll never be on it, because your place is here in the kingdom of backstreet pubs, tired, desirable girls and drowned men... First-class stories from one of our finest writers." —Helen Dunmore on The Silence Room (Sean's first collection)
"Atmospheric and highly literate, with a sense of writerly power in reserve, these gothic tales from a prizewinning poet strike a relishable balance between playful and macabre." —Phil Baker, The Sunday Times
"This is an impressively strong collection, in which there isn’t a single forgettable story." —Andy Hedgecock, The Morning Star
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