{"product_id":"the-bonfire-party-paperback","title":"The Bonfire Party - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSean O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe preoccupations of Sean O'Brien's work have for many of us become newly pressing: the recurrence of history, the shadow of war, the precariousness of a peacetime that can no longer be taken for granted. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire Party\u003c\/i\u003e, Forward Prize winner Sean O'Brien's twelfth poetry collection, takes its title from Eric Ravilious's 1930s painting, where some revellers watch the flames, while others feed them or run towards them, in a scene of 'mythic Englishness'. In these poems, the long view afforded by experience results in a truer representation of our predicament and a regretful understanding of human culpability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust as times and places flow together to create a shifting, at times visionary perspective, so too do the presences of those we have lost, 'love and death consorting as they must'. In a central sequence - a departure for O'Brien - he writes into the rich imaginative climate of George Simenon's Maigret novels. These poems, both 'homage and transposition', effect a poetic communion of sorts with the physical world and moral atmospheres encountered by the inscrutable detective and his creator. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe working of the imagination itself has become O'Brien's true subject, where the fact of the world and the imagined order of literature and art begin to merge.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSean O'Brien's twelve collections of poetry include \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEuropa, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmbark\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire Party\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has received awards including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize, the E.M. Forster Award, and the 2020 Beijing Literature and Arts Network Award for Poetry for lifetime achievement. His other work includes fiction, drama, criticism and translation. In 2020 his translation of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e of the Kazakh national poet Abai Kunanbayuli was published, and in 2021 he edited Alistair Elliot's \u003ci\u003eThis is the Life: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems have been widely translated. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.65 x 5.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46198460776645,"sku":"9781035064908","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/QyEtfn2cWD9781035064908.webp?v=1778360166","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-bonfire-party-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}