Literature Live with Sean O’Brien and John McAuliffe
17 Oct 2011
Centre for New Writing event on Monday 17 October (6.30pm) at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama.
This event is part of the Manchester Literature Festival 2011.
John McAuliffe was born in 1973 and grew up in Listowel, Co Kerry and now lives in Manchester. He won the RTE Poet of the Future award in 2000 and received a major Arts Council Bursary for first book A Better Life, which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize in 2002; Next Door was published in 2007 and The Gallery Press have just published his third collection, Of All Places, which has received a PBS Recommendation for Autumn 2011 and receives its Manchester launch tonight. He is co-director of the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester.
Sean O'Brien is a central figure in the contemporary poetry world - he has won major prizes for each of his five poetry collections, including the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham award, the E.M. Forster Award and, twice, the Forward Prize for Best Collection. He is also the editor of The Firebox, an acclaimed anthology of post-war UK poetry, a professor of Creative Writing in Sheffield, and the author of literary criticism and journalism for several newspapers and journals.
‘…the bard of urban Britain’ - Times
‘…a terrific language technician’ - Guardian
'His work is elegiac and satirical, interested in history, politics and the imagination' - Independent on Sunday
'A poet of unabashed political engagement, wit and humour' - Guardian
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