The Bonfire Party by Sean O'Brien #literature Thirteen chilling nightmares

Thirteen chilling nightmares

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The Bonfire Party by Sean O'Brien #literature Thirteen chilling nightmaresThe preoccupations of Sean OBriens recent work have for many of us become newly pressing: the recurrence of history, the shadow of war, the precariousness of a peacetime that can no longer be taken for granted. The Bonfire Party, OBriens twelfth collection, takes its title from Eric Raviliouss 1930s painting, where some revellers watch the flames, while others feed them or run towards them, in a scene of mythic Englishness. In these poems, the long