Beehive Poets @ Bradford City Library

Join Beehive Poets for the visit of Sean O'Brien.

Sean O’Brien’s twelfth collection of poems, 'The Bonfire Party', has just been published by Picador. Recent poetry publications include 'Embark' (2022), 'Impasse: for Jules Maigret' (2023), 'Otherwise' (2023) and 'Juniper' (2024). His collection of short stories 'The Long Glass' appeared in spring 2025. He has translated Dante’s 'Inferno', Aristophanes’ 'The Birds', Lope de Vega’s 'The Sicilian Courtesan', 'Eye of the Island: Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes' (with Daniel Hahn) and the 'Complete Poems of Abai Kunanbayuli'. His poetry has received the Somerset Maugham, Cholmondeley and E.M. Forster awards, as well as the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Sean will be supported by Kristina Diprose. Kristina’s shape-shifting writing explores ecological and mythological themes and our entanglement with the more-than-human world. She won the inaugural Oxford Canal Festival poetry competition in 2024, and has been shortlisted in the Artemesia Arts, Wolverhampton Literature Festival, Ginkgo Prize and Leeds Poetry Festival competitions. She was an Ilkley Literature Festival New Northern Poet in 2023. Her debut pamphlet, 'Thin Spells', was published in September 2025 by The Black Cat Poetry Press. She has also written short story commissions for Bradford 2025 in partnership with the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and appeared on BBC Front Row.


We look forward to seeing you there!

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