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Born in London in 1952, Sean O'Brien is one of Britain's most vital young poets. Winner of several prestigious literary awards, including an Eric Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Cholmondeley Award, his poems are angry, political, and painful, but never become merely denunciatory thanks to his mastery of energetic rhythms and formal syntax. As this collection - his third - shows, he also has an eye for the eccentric and a gift for parody. This book is intended for usual poetry readership, libraries, etc; other poets; Students, undergraduates, Sixth formers.
'You can't get there from here, but if you could, you'd have to take the train'. Ghost Train , Sean O'Brien's fourth collection of poems, rides the network of routes into history, politics, autobiography, and the imaginative region where they meet. The tone of this book is new for this author: sombre and expansive, elegiac and celebratory, Ghost Train is his most subtle book to date. This book is intended for poetry readers.