Ghost Train (First edition. Presentation copy)

O'Brien, Sean

ISBN 10: 019283231X / ISBN 13: 9780192832313

Published by Oxford Paperbacks, 1995

About this Item

First edition, VG++ in wraps. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on title page. Ownership name to upper corner of half-title page. Text clean and unmarked. Minor shelf-wear. Rev1.

Seller Inventory # S4-001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ghost Train (First edition. Presentation copy)
• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019283231X
• ISBN 13: 9780192832313
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

"You can't get there from here, but if you could, you'd have to take the train." Ghost Train, Sean O'Brien's fourth collection of poems, rides the network of routes into history, politics, autobiography, and the imaginative region where they meet. The tone of this new collection is no longer angry and political--a departure from his previous works, The Indoor Park, The Frighteners, and HMS Glasshouse--but has become almost elegiac and celebratory, sombre and "romantic." His most subtle work to date, the poems are not mellow and accepting of a post-Thatcherite Britain, but more aghast and troubled. O'Brien's writing is traditional in style, but he deploys an altogether contemporary vocabulary and his sense of rhythm is paramount. This is a moving book.

About the Author

About the Author:
Sean O'Brien is joint poetry reviewer for the Sunday Times. In 1992-4 he was Northern Arts Literary Fellow and in 1993 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for HMS Greenhouse.