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Embark

Embark

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  • Create Date：2023-04-02 07:52:20
  • Update Date：2025-09-06
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  • Author：Sean O'Brien
  • ISBN：1529096855
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Summary

Embark is a monumental piece of work: this is O’Brien in his late， Audenesque， hyper-authoritative mode， and the collection has a number of straight-to-the-anthology pieces about mortality， history and culture – steeped， as usual， with great and grim humor， wonderful music and the kind of literate and culturally informed wisdom that is increasingly rare in these deeply thick times。
 

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Reviews

Joseph Schreiber ，

O'Brien， an established， multi-award winning British poet is described by the publisher as "Auden's true inheritor'。 This collection， his 11th， is my first encounter with his work， inspired by a poem of his shared on social media。 There is a pensive， even gloomy quality to many of these poems， but I find a great comfort in his images of aspens， the ghosts of old towns and landscapes， and memories of youth。 This is the work of a mature poet， in age （he just turned 70） and in his confidence with l O'Brien， an established， multi-award winning British poet is described by the publisher as "Auden's true inheritor'。 This collection， his 11th， is my first encounter with his work， inspired by a poem of his shared on social media。 There is a pensive， even gloomy quality to many of these poems， but I find a great comfort in his images of aspens， the ghosts of old towns and landscapes， and memories of youth。 This is the work of a mature poet， in age （he just turned 70） and in his confidence with language。 But it is also very much of the present—the pandemic seeps into a number of pieces， as does a sense that the world is seeing the rise of troubling movements that demonstrate how the lessons of war are so easily forgotten。 But above all， his imagery moves me:"In these days of howling sunshinewhen in the grove the aspens fret and pulllike maddened horses now silver now greyin the curdling light， when the leaves of the cherryare first all hands and then all birdsthat point the way they cannot travel with you，what then is to be done？"– from "Poem in German"An extended review can be found here: https://roughghosts。com/2023/02/28/on。。。 。。。more

Mark Brooks ，

Have enjoyed Sean's previous poetry and very much enjoyed this too， dark， mournful ， full of ghosts from the past and for me a strong feeling of moving on as well， both personal and life itself ， to where， no，one knows 。A rueful tone throughout I felt。 Favourites are Wine-glasses ， '76 ， and the final poem ， Star of Bethlehem。 Have enjoyed Sean's previous poetry and very much enjoyed this too， dark， mournful ， full of ghosts from the past and for me a strong feeling of moving on as well， both personal and life itself ， to where， no，one knows 。A rueful tone throughout I felt。 Favourites are Wine-glasses ， '76 ， and the final poem ， Star of Bethlehem。 。。。more

Caspar Bryant ，

strong and my favourite over November！ my annotations do have a sweet time of it here。 Master of the long sentence - Furniture。 Wine-Glasses a very memorable piece

tpg0 ，

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tpg1 ，

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