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The Frighteners

By Sean O'Brien

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9781852240134 | Dufour Editions, August 1, 1988, cover price $12.95

Hms Glasshouse

Product Description: A welcome addition to Oxford's contemporary poetry list, Sean O'Brien presents his third, and most powerful, book of poems yet. Angry, painful, and politically aware, O'Brien's poems soar by virtue of their energetic rhythms, astute syntax, and fine sense of the possibilities of parody...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9780192828354 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A welcome addition to Oxford's contemporary poetry list, Sean O'Brien presents his third, and most powerful, book of poems yet.

Indoor Park

Product Description: Aggressive, witty, and dramatic, O'Brien's territory is urban pastoral. Its focus here is Pearson Park in Hull, a paradigm of Victorian leisure and ambition. As his imagination explores its historical melancholy, the poet discovers the strangeness of a familiar place.

By Sean O'Brien

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9780906427491 | Dufour Editions, January 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Aggressive, witty, and dramatic, O'Brien's territory is urban pastoral.

Ghost Train

Product Description: "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...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9780192832313 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 21, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: "You can't get there from here, but if you could, you'd have to take the train.

9780192830074 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | also contains The New Connoisseurs' Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries | About this edition: "You can't get there from here, but if you could, you'd have to take the train.

The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British & Irish Poetry

Product Description: These essays explore the cases, causes, methods, influences, quarrels, and achievements in the work of numerous poets. Among the poets included are: Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Reading, Harrison, and Muldoon. A wide range of younger poets are also discussed, including: Dunmore, D'Aguiar, Maxwell, and Kay...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9781852242817 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, November 15, 1998, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: These essays explore the cases, causes, methods, influences, quarrels, and achievements in the work of numerous poets.

The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland After 1945

By Sean O'Brien (editor)

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9780330369183 | Pan Books Ltd, December 1, 1998, cover price $19.95

The Fire Box: Poetry in Britain & Ireland After 1945

Product Description: An anthology of post-war poems, including works by Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, and by more recent names, such as Kathleen Jamie and Ciaran Carson. This book also provides a paragraph about each of the 75 poets represented.

By Sean O'Brien (editor)

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9780330372558 | Pan Books Ltd, December 1, 1998, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: An anthology of post-war poems, including works by Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, and by more recent names, such as Kathleen Jamie and Ciaran Carson.

The Deregulated Muse

By Sean O'Brien

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9781852242824 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, March 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: These essays explore the cases, causes, methods, influences, quarrels, and achievements in the work of numerous poets.

12 Short Hikes: Coastal Areas San Diego

Product Description: Written for families, newcomers, and anybody looking for easy access to an outdoor experience. Each book describes in clear graphic scenic hikes of less than two hours.

By Sean O'Brien

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9781575400808 | Falcon Pr Pub Co, October 1, 1999, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Written for families, newcomers, and anybody looking for easy access to an outdoor experience.

12 Short Hikes: Mountain Areas San Diego

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By Sean O'Brien

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9781575400815 | Falcon Pr Pub Co, October 1, 1999, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Written for families, newcomers, and anybody looking for easy access to an outdoor experience.

Rivers

By John Kinsella, Sean O'Brien and Peter Porter

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9781863683807 | Fremantle Arts Center Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $21.95

Cousin Coat: Selected Poems, 1976-2001

Product Description: Sean O'Brien is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted English poets now writing, and as a leading poet-critic. Cousin Coat collects the best of O'Brien's work to date; long-time O'Brien aficionados will be grateful to have so much of the early work available again, while recent converts will be delighted to find that O'Brien's boisterous wit, intelligence and astonishing technical fluency were as much in evidence at the outset of his career as they are now...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9780330490979 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, December 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Sean O'Brien is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted English poets now writing, and as a leading poet-critic.

The Inferno

By Sean O'Brien

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9780330437622 | Pan Macmillan, January 1, 2004, cover price $13.90

The Beautiful Librarians

By Sean O'Brien

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9781447287513 | Pan Macmillan, March 12, 2015, cover price $17.95

The Drowned Book

Product Description: From one of England's most established poets comes a new collection of poems filled with scabrous wit and lyric assurance that are just as sharp as his five previous award-winning collections. Most recently, O’Brien’s Down River won the 2001 Forward Prize for Best Collection, making him the only poet to have won the Forward Prize twice...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9780330447621 | Pan Macmillan, October 28, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: From one of England's most established poets comes a new collection of poems filled with scabrous wit and lyric assurance that are just as sharp as his five previous award-winning collections.

Keepers Of The Flame

Product Description: A brilliant new thriller about poetry and fascismIn the 1930s a young poet and patriot, Richard Jameson falls in love with the socialist daughter of Sir Henry Exton, a powerful media mogul. But in courting her, he finds himself embroiled in a fascist struggle for influence over the heart of the establishment...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9780413774125 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, October 15, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A brilliant new thriller about poetry and fascismIn the 1930s a young poet and patriot, Richard Jameson falls in love with the socialist daughter of Sir Henry Exton, a powerful media mogul.

Ellipsis 1

Product Description: This short story collection features three authors who each contribute half a dozen stories that are linked by their shared setting. Jean Sprackland follows characters clinging to lost dreams and obsessions amid the dunes and fairgrounds of Southport...read more

By Tim Cooke, Sprackland Jean and Sean O'Brien

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9780954828028 | Carcanet Pr, April 28, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This short story collection features three authors who each contribute half a dozen stories that are linked by their shared setting.

The Trial: Hoosier Style

Product Description: Sean O'Brien, author of THE TRIAL, is the pseudonym of an Irish Lawyer whose international clientele is predominately from the United States. "Since a wee lad, I've been mesmerized by the Americans - their ingenuity, drive, achievements...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9781425912437 | Authorhouse, August 31, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Sean O'Brien, author of THE TRIAL, is the pseudonym of an Irish Lawyer whose international clientele is predominately from the United States.

Best Easy Day Hikes San Diego

Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

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9780762751136 | 2 updated edition (Falcon Pr Pub Co, July 15, 2009), cover price $9.95

9781560448648 | Falcon Pr Pub Co, August 1, 1999, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

November

Product Description: A brilliant new collection from the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize winning poet Showing O'Brien at the height of his powers, with his intellect and imagination as gratifyingly restless as ever, this collection is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the uncountable lostlost sleep, connections, muses, books, and the ghosts and gardens of childhood...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9780330544085 | Pan Macmillan, June 1, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: November is Sean O'Brien's first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T.

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9780330535007 | Pan Macmillan, October 1, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A brilliant new collection from the T.

Country Girls

By Sean O'Brien

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9780571296699 | Faber & Faber, June 7, 2012, cover price $15.95

Journeys to the Interior: Ideas of England in Contemporary Poetry

Product Description: In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry in England. This edition considers the work of a range of contemporary poets, including Peter Didsbury, Carol Ann Duffy, Paul Farley, Roy Fisher, Daljit Nagra, Jo Shapcott, and George Szirtes, examining areas of dissent and signs of affirmation...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9781852249328 | Reprint edition (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, November 30, 2012), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry in England.

Collected Poems

Product Description: This collection, drawing on almost 40 years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety and the consistent quality of OâBrienâs work, as well as the enduring strength of his obsessions: these have helped create a tone and a landscape as immediately recognizable as those of MacNeice, Larkin, or Eliot...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9781447217350 | Pan Macmillan, November 22, 2012, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This collection, drawing on almost 40 years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today.

Vale of Stars

Product Description: Jene Halfner awaits the end of a hundred-year-long, deep-space colonization journey begun by her ancestors generations before. She has spent her life preparing for planetfall on Epsilon Eridani III, taking care of the growing number of victims of interstellar radiation aboard Ship...read more

By Sean O'Brien

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9781936564613 | Gardners Books, December 12, 2012, cover price $17.75 | About this edition: Jene Halfner awaits the end of a hundred-year-long, deep-space colonization journey begun by her ancestors generations before.

Race and Immigration in the New Ireland

Product Description: Although a number of books have addressed recent changes in Ireland that are related to immigration, both during and after the Celtic Tiger economic boom and bust, they are often limited by a focus on a single aspect of immigration or on either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland...read more

By Sean O'Brien (editor)

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9780268027773 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Although a number of books have addressed recent changes in Ireland that are related to immigration, both during and after the Celtic Tiger economic boom and bust, they are often limited by a focus on a single aspect of immigration or on either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.

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