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Sean O'Brien

Sean O’Brien’s most recent collection is Embark (Picador, 2022). He has edited Alistair Elliot’s This is the Life: Selected Poems, which is to appear later this year from Shoestring Press. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

Sean O'Brien's work featured in PN Review comprises five contributions of poetry and two articles, over a period of six years. Also available are five reviews of Sean O'Brien's work.
Further Reading
Subscribers only Reviewed by Michael Bird in PN Review 35 (1984) on new books from Bloodaxe, Peterloo and Poetry Wales Press
Subscribers only Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris in PN Review 86 (1992) on Brendan Kennelly, Michael Palmer and Sean O'Brien
Subscribers only Reviewed by Tim Kendall in PN Review 125 (1999) on Sean O'Brien's The Deregulated Muse
Subscribers only Reviewed by Judith Willson in PN Review 150 (2003) on Jane Draycott and others' rivers
Subscribers only Reviewed by Adam Long in PN Review 242 (2018) on Sean O’Brien
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 244 (2018) on Robert Graves
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 247 (2019) Five Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 249 (2019) on Ken Smith
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 250 (2019) from Hammersmith
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 254 (2020) An Arch Wherethro’ and other poems
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 261 (2021) Four Poems
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 269 (2023) Three Poems
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