The Bonfire Party by Sean O'Brien #literature author of Witchcraft ‘Fascinating

author of Witchcraft ‘Fascinating

Thirteen chilling nightmares

This is a revelatory look at the past that has the power to change our future

' Tommy Orange

to suckling pig and charcuterie

The Bonfire Party by Sean O'Brien #literature author of Witchcraft ‘FascinatingThe preoccupations of Sean OBriens recent work have for many of us become newly pressing: the recurrence of history, the shadow of war, the precariousness of a peacetime that can no longer be taken for granted. The Bonfire Party, OBriens twelfth collection, takes its title from Eric Raviliouss 1930s painting, where some revellers watch the flames, while others feed them or run towards them, in a scene of mythic Englishness. In these poems, the long