{"id":960,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/sean-obrien\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:46:36","slug":"sean-obrien","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/sean-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O\u2019Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean O\u2019Brien 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 <em>The Indoor Park<\/em>, <em>The Frighteners<\/em> (both Bloodaxe Books) and <em>HMS Glasshouse <\/em>and <em>Ghost Train<\/em> (both Oxford University Press). His collection, <em>Downriver<\/em> (2001), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, was published by Picador Poetry, home to all his subsequent collections. <em>The Drowned Book<\/em> (2007) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. <em>November<\/em> (2011) was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. His <em>Collected Poems<\/em> appeared in 2012. <em>The Beautiful Librarians <\/em>(2015), a Poetry Book Society Choice, and <em>Europa<\/em> (2018) were both shortlisted for the T. S. Elliot Prize. His recent collections are <i>It Says Here<\/i> (2020) and <i>Embark<\/i> (2022). He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. <em>Author p<\/em><em>hoto \u00a9 Caroline Forbes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean O\u2019Brien 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9177,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-960","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}