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these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb

such as the killing of Bigfoot and a slave on a slave ship

Joey Frances is Based in Manchester

the Premio Xavier Villarrutia

though you've been smuggled from polite conversation

The Seasons of Cullen Church knives forks spoons these extraordinary poems may unsettleBernard O'Donoghue is the author of six poetry collections, including Gunpowder (1995), winner of the Whitbread Costa prize, and Farmers Cross, which was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and the Forward prizes in 2011. This new collection of expert lyric poems movingly animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork; it will confirm O'Donoghue's place as one of the most approachable and agile voices in contemporary Irish and British poetry.