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""O'Donoghue's poems are an object lesson in how to write poetry that matters."" - PN Review ""The poignancy of O'Donoghue's migratory imagination is . . . the perfect travelling companion."" - TLS ""Compelling and simple diction . . . full of gentle, sometimes undetectable flashes of humour."" - London Magazine ""As with everything O'Donoghue writes, the more you look, the more you see."" - Scotsman

""O'Donoghue's poems are an object lesson in how to write poetry that matters."" - PN Review ""The poignancy of O'Donoghue's migratory imagination is...the perfect travelling companion."" - TLS ""Compelling and simple diction...full of gentle, sometimes undetectable flashes of humour."" - London Magazine ""As with everything O'Donoghue writes, the more you look, the more you see."" - Scotsman

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Bernard O'Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co Cork in 1945. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. He has published six collections of poetry, including Gunpowder, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and The Seasons of Cullen Church, shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize. His Selected Poems was published by Faber in 2008. He has published a verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics, 2006), and is currently translating Piers Plowman for Faber.

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