# Event Details - **Event Name**: Sean O'Brien | Book Launch - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Award-winning Newcastle-based poet Sean O’Brien launches and reads from his new collection of poetry, The Bonfire Party.About this EventThursday 22nd January 2026 | 7:30Award-winning Newcastle-based poet Sean O’Brien launches and reads from his new collection of poetry, The Bonfire Party.The preoccupations of Sean O’Brien’s 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, O’Brien’s twelfth collection, takes its title from Eric Ravilious’s 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 view afforded by experience results in a truer representation of our predicament and a regretful understanding of human culpability. Just as times and places flow together to create a shifting, sometimes visionary perspective, so too do the presences of those we have lost, ‘love and death consorting as they must’.The working of the imagination itself has become O’Brien’s true subject, where the fact of the world and the imagined order of literature and art begin to merge. “The greatest pleasure, whatever he chooses to write about, is O’Brien’s unforced gift, the ease of the writing, the phrases that seem to roll off his pen.”- Kate Kellaway, ObserverA LIVE Lit & Phil Event | FREE(If you would prefer to book directly over the phone, please call the Library Desk team on 0191 232 0192 and they will be happy to help)There is no set ticket price for this event, but if you would like to make a small donation to support the good work of The Lit & Phil we would be very grateful. Click the link above to donate via Paypal.Image 1 | The Bonfire Party, by Sean O'Brien | Book Cover | Image provided by promoterImage 2 | Sean O' Brien, author | Image provided by promoter - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/newcastle-upon-tyne/sean-obrien-book-launch/100001954939459549 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, parties, entertainment, nonprofit, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Newcastle Upon Tyne - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: The Lit & Phil - **lat**: 54.9694099 - **long**: -1.614005 - **full address**: The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Sean O'Brien | Book Launch - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/5f89ea22a31db6aa5475e780aa77f8a3a9e4e7f26a9b8be4cf39d0b17680ef82-rimg-w1200-h516-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1762542585 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Sean O'Brien | Book Launch being held? - **A:** Sean O'Brien | Book Launch takes place on Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 pm at The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Sean O'Brien | Book Launch? - **A:** Sean O'Brien | Book Launch is organized by The Lit and Phil. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Sean O'Brien | Book Launch is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Newcastle Upon Tyne, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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