The evil Ive committed Thank you for opportunity to comment. Strange: no one nowadays admits My daughter is fifteen, i seperated from her father when she was four years old and when she was eight her father decided not to see her anymore. I absolutely loved your book Sarah it teased out memories of my emotions, I felt would drown me, when I was a child and I was bitterly disappointed you did not manage to bring a comforting and satisfying conclusion to your heartache. "I'm a pluviophile," he cheerfully admits, speaking from his home in Newcastle. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Follow @john_self An absolutely novel crime Set against shorter, ruthlessly focused pieces vicious and scabrous political sketches and satires charting the growth of extremism and the disintegration of democracy are meditations on the imaginative life, dream and remembrance, time and recurrence. Bob Young, http://www.dublin.ie/forums/forumdisplay.php?28-Harold-s-Cross-Ranelagh-Rathgar-Rathmines-Terenure. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The Drowned Bookby Sean O'Brien80pp, Picador, 8.99. Eliot prize. Kindest regards I worshipped my father to the point of sheer physical pain but only lost him to the war, when I thought the pain would kill me but he came home, then finally when he passed on. #yangtzebysarahhowe#yangtzepoem#yangtzepoemsummaryinmalayalam#yangtzemalayalamsumary#yangtzemalayalam#yangtzesummary#yangtze#yangtzesummaryinmalayalam#sarahhowe Poems by This Poet. However I dont find much poetry that I actually like. He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and studied as a postgraduate at the universities of Birmingham, Hull and Leeds, where he gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. (LogOut/ He left Dublin when he was fourteen, married my mum and had me when he was nineteen. I felt your pain, I cried your tears and could not put your book down. Are you planning to write a follow up to Rooms of Dust? Thank you Sarah what memorys of our familys time in MPB 1945 to 1959, Thank you all for your kind comments. This means I do have experience of Sean OBrien, mainly through his earlier collection Ghost Train, which ranged fromsubversive homage to MacNeices Autumn Journal in Somebody Else, (You live here on the citys edge / Among back lanes and stable blocks / From which you glimpse the allegations / Of the gardening bourgeoisie that all is well)to a sensitive, sharp portrayal of football (a subject in which I thought I had no interest) in Autumn Begins at St Jamess Park, Newcastle.. And when I was little, parts of the city would flood. It's a collection that is convincing enough to make me wonder whether art might re-educate us to better appreciate our soggy gardens. Than asset-stripping mountebanks Like a municipal reworking of Alice Oswald's Dart, The Drowned Book immerses . Here, OBrien charts a psycho-geographic journey through the English countryside and the haunted precincts of London, mapping a labyrinth of love, madness and lost history. Well, really it was a monastic settlement on a swamp. The evidence, the court: My memoir, Rooms of Dust, (out of print but available from me) tells of duck ponds in Hull and mittens worn on a wet day in Dublin when I said my final farewell to our Dad, the runaway poet of the Irish Free State Army. Who staffed her army of the night: Yet again trapped in the house by the weather last week, I picked up the latest collection of poems by Sean O'Brien, who's had a cracking year since the publication of The Drowned Book, winning both the Forward and TS Eliot prizes an unprecedented poetry double. Branch libraries and playing fields Can rake in flogging dope and tanks: So this is political poetry, and the essences of what the country has lost since Thatcherism came to town is revisited in Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright, which OBrien takes the case of the coal miners and gives an elegy for the pitmen, but also a celebration of their life and labour. (The singing of the dead inside the earth / Is like the friction of great stones, or like the rush / Of water into newly opened darkness.) He also brings us up to date, with present government policy on terrorism laws, in Song: Habeas Corpus: Forget about due process, But thanks for sharing, its good to get a peek inside the covers of a prize winner. Just think, if Im not found in time, Poetry has succeeding in reshaping gardening taste before. Poems by Sean O'Brien. (LogOut/ 'The Drowned Book' by Sean O'Brien (Picador, 8.99) is out now, Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Then I might perpetrate It was exciting. His poem "Arcadia", for example, describes a journey in a rowing boat across a lake in a fantastical garden with a touch of mythical strangeness. The theme of water drives through the book, as rivers, drainsand sewers illustrate the forgotten past and the unwelcome present, from police and politicianswhose only energy / Is fear to lost friends (The River Road): For afterlife, only beginning, beginning, O'Brien has every chance to pull off a similar trick. Wide, dark waters that grow in the telling, The result is a stirring, illuminating document of a time of immense societal flux and upheaval by one of our finest poets and most insightful cultural commentators.https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/sean-obrien/1934 My father Michael Grimes comes from Rathmines and lived in Mount Pleasant Buildings. Sean O'Brien. Gerry Wardle. Sadly, I dont think I like the sound of OBrien either the water stuff is appealing while the political is offputting. If so, I look forward to reading it. It is reassuring that poetry of this quality is still being written. - Catriona O'Reilly, Irish TimesIt Says Here is Sean OBriens follow-up to his celebrated collection Europa, and has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor. Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic, novelist, short-fiction writer, professor of creative writing at Newcastle University, England, and a Fellow of the UK's Royal Society of Literature. Rewritten. Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don't They. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Anyway, my extremely limited experience of m- contemporary poetry tends toward the down-to-earth, the accessible, partly for want of schooling in the damn art, and partly for a woeful lack of ambition. At the centre of the book is the long poem Hammersmith, a shadowy, cinematic dream-vision of England during and since the Second World War. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. "There is something about the rain," he says, "that is both heart-breaking and consoling.". I will try to make contact again on Dublin Forums. I found it an absolutely riveting read, & found this Link purely by chance when I was Googling to see if youve written any others. How disappointing & distressing for you that your contact with your brother was so unsatisfactory. Chin up, Sean, even if you do join Captain Nemo, Guildenstern / And suchlike planks booked in to burn, at least youve cleaned up at the poetry awards. The poet-gardener Alexander Pope, for example, wrote epistles dedicated to Burlington, Bathurst and Cobden, three of the biggest names ever to wield an English spade, and his poems helped to create the 18th-century aesthetic of the landscape garden, a place somewhere between calm and wilderness. Toward the end, the moving waterways are brought overground and replaced by railways a manmade development which OBrien can endorse and the feeling is carefully optimistic; allowing, of course, for the odd journey to hell. I am haunted by the idea of the pubs in the old part of the city having their cellars flooded, and I'm intrigued by the idea that the floodwater might somehow insinuate itself into the beer.". Some on ice and some on fire, And absolutely out of luck. "Praise of a Rainy Country", meanwhile, written in memory of the Northern writer Julia Darling, whose premature death touched O'Brien personally, takes place in a drenched world with something of the 1970s about it. Our history, it seems, is quite Last month saw severe weather warnings from the Met Office while the Environment Agency braced the public for "intense bursts of rain". Change). I was going to say modern poetry, but that has fogeyish hints of modern art, doesnt it, with an implication of chastisement for anyone daring to try to drive cultural achievement onward when everybody knows that nobody alive can write/paint/video-install as well as anyone dead. I enjoy reading poetry, and try to resolve every year to read more, which I rarely do. 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"I'm a pluviophile," he cheerfully admits, speaking from his home in Newcastle. Plus those who think it dont apply, You mention my auty Mary Grimes in your book which makes it all the more real to me. "I grew up in Hull, which was built on a flood plain. Known only to the state . "It's a mixture of a real park in Hull, called Pearson Park, with some changes made for my own purposes." It hasnt happened yet Ghost Train won the Forward Poetry Prize in 1995 when it was published; his next collection, Downriver (2001) repeated the feat; and in a hat-trick the Toon Army tsunami would be proud of, his latestThe Drowned Book (2007) took both the Forward Prize and, this week, the T.S. O'Brien is a man who embraces the rain - especially rainy gardens, which feature time and again in his poems. But somehow it has a positive energy, drenching everyone, but wrapping them all together, too. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Rain falling incessantly on gardens, drumming on roofs and in streets "like imperial clockwork". Your story is very poignant to me but also written with great wit and warmth . i couldnt put it down. There are elegies for friends and fellow poets; paranoiac, brooding pastorals; other poems lay bare the maddening trials of a historically literate mind as it attempts to navigate a world gone post-content, post-intellectual, and at times post-memory. I thought that poets were supposed to be sensitive souls! #atlantisalostsonnetmalayalamsummary#atlantisalostsonnetsummaryinmalayalam#atlantisalostsonnetmalayalam#atlantisalostsonnetsummary#atlantisalostsonnet#evanbo. A change of pace for me, with of all things! To voting in the gang of shits O'Brien enumerates myriad kinds of precipitation, as if he were a Japanese aesthete discerning all the manifestations of water in the air. Just finished your Rooms of Dust Some with slow piano wire, Carried by an unidentified, but surly, municipal ferryman, he travels through what feels like a landscape of the dead, seeing nymphs through the moist air who may in fact just be schoolgirls. All travellers not yet on board And an enormous range of novel plant illnesses have manifested themselves as a result of leaves and flowers being damp for weeks on end. Join Zeno, Zog and Baudelaire Great Britain! Immanuel Kant and Percy Sledge, He often talks of his childhood in the bulildings. With Peter Pan, the Golden Horde, Every geranium has mildew; every pear tree, sooty mould. Who witter, witter, Im, like, why? Where the river road carries us now. Thank you for sharing your experiences of quite dark times. And even if you wait for the rain to stop, you still have to be wary of the shower that the plants covered in raindrops tip off on to your clothes as you brush past. its his loss though that is no consolation to you. Poet Sean O'Brien was born in London, England, on 19 December 1952 and grew up in Hull. (LogOut/ This is done both with artful solemnity (Arcadia) and playfully, where Timor Mortis finds OBrien at his funniest on the indivisibility of humankind when it comes to condemnation: The wonks who work the cutting edge, Ditties like this may tread a line between simple and simplistic, but OBrien is capable of more complex things. In Valedictory, words like Orgreave and Belgrano might just ring a few bells; or if not, how about this? Yes Rooms of Dust a great book indeed brought back loads of memory to our family, You might like to have a look here and also show your Dad Michael. He has a new family now. are you writing a follow up? Of course, if you venture out, you'll get soaked. In both technical mastery and his belief in the seriousness of the poetic art, OBrien is WH Audens true inheritor. X. just finished rooms of dust. You'd think that gardeners, at least, could see this as a blessing, but there's been all kinds of horticultural problems as a result of waterlogging. With so many childhood memories touched by water, O'Brien began to compile a collection, little knowing it would end up being published in a year that saw such an abundance of rain. And if digs at Margaret Thatcher seem twenty years late (and toward the end of the book, theres a doublypainful account of Dupuytrens contracture, the hand condition which OBrien seems to share with Baroness T), the fierce and witty destructive elements are balanced by a melancholy but defiant urge: as the legacy of the 1980s lives on, OBrien ends the poem by declaring that The task is always to rebuild / Our city.. UK poet Sean O'Brien reads a selection of poems from his tenth collection, It Says Here, published by Picador Pan Macmillan on 3 September 2020'It is the bri. I am Engish and deeply ashamed of what my country did to Ireland then. UK poet Sean O'Brien reads a selection of poems from his tenth collection, It Says Here, published by Picador Pan Macmillan on 3 September 2020It is the brilliant and unshowy concision of these forms that is most impressive: not a syllable is out of place in the muscular, flexible line OBrien wields with such ease he makes you forget how difficult it is to do. a book of poetry. how sad that sean didnt get back to you. The Calm. Pretty soon, when the presses crank up for a new OBrien collection, all the other poets in the land will keep their powder dry till next year. I recognise the yearning for your father and hope my daughter will read your book. The T.S. True to its title, Sean O'Brien's latest collection oozes water. Random Post from my archive, Matthew Hollis: Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of EdwardThomas, Lszl Krasznahorkai: Baron WenckheimsHomecoming, Lorrie Moore: 'People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk'. Is as secretive as thought. Ive just finished reading your book Sarah, it might be out of print, but its still available at my local Library. HI Jacqueline Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? And its not just through luck either. I am just reading your book Rooms of Dust and really enjoying it. wonderful! For in our time the future tense O'Brien is a man who embraces the rain especially rainy gardens, which feature time and again in his poems. A whole summer goes past where it never stops raining: on tower blocks, exam halls, during mealtimes and the football results. As conscripts of le grand nowhere If poetry can teach us to see the world differently, it could do worse than instil in us some sense of the beauty of rain. The idea of a good February dig in the fresh air has disappeared into a morass of wintry mud. He taught at Beacon School, Crowborough, East Sussex between 1981 and 1989. it is not so freely available as one might like to think. Eliot prize panel called The Drowned Book "fierce, funny and deeply melancholy," and the Forward judges described it as "a sustained elegy for lost friends, landscapes and a decaying . Most I read only to conclude that its the sort I dont like. If you dug a hole in your back garden, it would slowly fill with water. An act more terrible because Will be the major threat. The T.S. Deliver rather lower yields Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Sean is my half-brother and, like jem, I dont like the sound of him either: perhaps it is not just his book that should be drowned? 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