Jean O Brien Books
Reach
By Jean O Brien
Belfast's Lapwing Publication has done considerable service to a host of Southern-based poets, who deserve publication. Jean O'Brien's collection is lively, varied, and very readable. Fred Johnston...
Read MoreDangerous dresses
By Jean O Brien
Jean O'Brien is a mistress of endings. Dangerous Dresses is full of poems which turn, then arrive gracefully at a point of neither under, nor overstatement... A stronger presence than these poetic...
Read MoreThe shadow keeper
By Jean O Brien
A quietly lyrical note sounds through most of the poems in the Shadow Keeper and her concerns are for the most part comfortingly familiar and domestic. Poems such as "The Shadow Keeper" ('He smiles...
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