Sean O’Brien is a poet, critic, novelist and short-fiction writer. Born in London in 1952, he grew up in Hull and now lives in Newcastle. His poetry collections include The Indoor Park, The Frighteners (both Bloodaxe Books) and HMS Glasshouse and Ghost Train (both Oxford University Press). His collection, Downriver (2001), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, was published...
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