Bernard O'Donoghue

Biography
Bernard O'Donoghue was born in Cullen, Cork, 1945. He is a fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, where he teaches Medieval English.

Reviews
OUTLIVING GUNPOWDER SELECTED POEMS (FABER & FABER, 2008)
 * The Guardian -- O'Donoghue is a poet who remains, either way, unpretentious. He manages to say quite naturally what others have to turn into enigmas.
 * Poetry Magazines -- O’Donoghue achieves in Gunpowderwhat all poets dream of doing: he creates his own world. That world is fascinating and strange.
 * Dr Fulminare's Queftionable Arts -- On the whole this is not a very memorable book of poetry. There are some lyric gems spread here and there, especially in the third and fourth collections, but in general the selection fails to produce a congruent, durable intellectual or aesthetic statement.
 * The Guardian -- Clever and self-conscious, but blessedly uncontaminated by the abstract language of ideas or by brittle academic rhetoric, O'Donoghue's best poems are "at home" with this unease about origins.