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The Beautiful Librarians

by Sean O'Brien
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781447287513
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Pan MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Pan MacMillan
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Pages: 64
  • Original Price: GBP 9.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 177 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista, or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history, and rhetorical assurance. "The Beautiful Librarians" is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central figures in our culture, often overlooked by both capital and official account. Here we find infantrymen, wrestlers, old lushes in the hotel bar but none more heroic than the librarians of the title, those silent and silencing guardians of literature and knowledge who, the poet reminds us, also had lives of their own to be celebrated. Elsewhere we find a 12-bar blues sung by Ovid, a hymn to a grey rose, a writing course from hell, and a very French exercise in waiting. A book of terrific variety of theme and form, "The Beautiful Librarians" is another bravura performance from the most garlanded English poet of his generation."

Sean O'Brien is a poet, critic, playwright, broadcaster, anthologist, and editor. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Drowned Book won both the Forward Prize for best collection and the T S Eliot Prize. His most recent collection, November, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, the T S Eliot Prize, and the Forward Prize.

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