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Born Co Cork, 1945, Bernard O'Donoghue
is a teacher, poet and literary critic. Currently teaching Medieval
English at Oxford, O’Donoghue continues to find an audience
at home in Ireland.
Winner of the Whitbread prize for his second collection,
O’Donoghue has penned The Weakness (Chatto &
Windus, 1992); Gunpowder (Chatto & Windus, 1995),
Here Nor There (Chatto & Windus, 1999); Poaching
Rights (Gallery Books, 1999) and Outliving (Chatto
and Windus, 2003) as well as contributed to numerous editions
of The Anthology of Oxford Poetry.
A Seamus Heaney scholar, O’Donoghue also
wrote Seamus Heaney and The Language of Poetry (Prentice
Hall PTR, 1995). He resides in England.
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