The Bonfire Party by Sean O'Brien world kindness day 'Every poem is a revelation'

'Every poem is a revelation' - Florence Welch

but always mapped onto the local

and 'heartbreaking' as they 'converse from the inside out… come alive in the back and forth of a mind attempting to understand what it means to be in relation to

published in 1963 at the age of 28

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The Bonfire Party by Sean O'Brien world kindness day 'Every poem is a revelation'The Bonfire Party Sean OBriens twelfth collection considers conditions at the limit of things, where the world can seem as mysterious as it is empty. This metaphysical cast of mind has deepened through OBriens later works, and amongst The Bonfire Party's reflections on love, history and recurrence, the climate emergency is also a peremptory and nightmarish presence. In a central sequence, OBrien writes into the rich imaginative climate of George