Europa by Sean O'Brien Comma Press Pretend You Don’t Know MeÂ

Pretend You Don’t Know Me contains her iconic poem ‘To the doctor who treated the raped baby and who felt such despair’ as well as Dowling’s tragi-comic cycle of poems on the theme of her mother’s dementia

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 Lemonade in 2016

and widely shortlisted for competitions

The Map and the Clock is a stunning and essential treasury of the poems that have moulded our languages

Europa by Sean O'Brien Comma Press Pretend You Don’t Know MeÂEuropa, Sean OBriens ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book. Europe is not a place we can choose to leave: it is also a shared heritage and an age old state of being, a place where our common dreams, visions and nightmares recur and mutate. In placing our present crises in the context of an imaginative past, OBrien show how our futures will be determined by what we choose to understand of our own European identity as well as what we