The Drowned Book

Sean O'Brien · 2007 CE · Poem · English · Contemporary

Water, drowned places and the north of England recur in poems that include elegies for the poet's parents and ghostly encounters with the buried past of industrial towns. The underworld is a flooded city rather than a cave. A lyric collection that won the Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize in the same year.

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