Sean O’Brien’s twelfth collection of poems, The Bonfire Party, is to be published by Picador in 2026. His pamphlet À la Carte is to appear from New Walk in November 2025. Recent poetry publications include Embark (2022), Impasse: for Jules Maigret (2023) and Juniper (2024). His collection of short stories The Long Glass appeared in spring 2025. He has translated Dante’s Inferno, Aristophanes’ The Birds, Lope de Vega’s The Sicilian Courtesan, the Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes (with Daniel Hahn) and the Complete Poems of Abai Kunanbayuli. His poetry has received the Somerset Maugham, Cholmondeley and E.M. Forster awards, as well as the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. He is also a novelist, short story writer, playwright and critic. O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Translated Poems
