Bernard O'Donoghue – författare

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is narrated by Singer/Songwriter and folk-punk icon Frank Turner. Frank Turner has released eight solo studio albums, the most recent of which was No Man''s Land, which contained songs celebrating some of the most important women throughout history. This definitive edition is translated by Bernard O''Donoghue.Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur''s Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year''s Eve. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge, decapitating the stranger - only to see the Green Knight seize up his own severed head and ride away, leaving Gawain to seek him out and honour their pact. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, Gawain is among the greatest Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction.© Bernard O''Donoghue 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

This definitive collection of Seamus Heaney's poetry, published in a single volume for the first time, gives us the full arc of the Nobel laureate's long and varied career. Seamus Heaney's voice is like no other-"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker). Published in a single volume for the first time, the collected poems of Heaney is a testament to that unforgettable voice, and to the breadth and beauty of the Nobel laureate's long and brilliant career, from his first book, Death of a Naturalist (1966), to poems written for Human Chain (2010), his twelfth and final book.

This book scrutinizes Heaney''s language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer''s responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney''s writings on the appropriate language of poetry. Chapters also look at Heaney''s language and at the government of the tongue.

This book scrutinizes Heaney''s language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer''s responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney''s writings on the appropriate language of poetry. Chapters also look at Heaney''s language and at the government of the tongue.