Bernard O'Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co Cork in 1945. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. He has published six collections of poetry, including
Gunpowder, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and
The Seasons of Cullen Church, shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize. His
Selected Poems was published by Faber in 2008. He has published a verse translation of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics, 2006), and is currently translating
Piers Plowman for Faber.
The book brings together subtle and moving meditations on exile and belonging, travel and home, and honours many friends and loved ones along the way. In a series of poems that frequently recall the south-west Ireland of the author's childhood, Farmers Cross shows the author writing...
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