Bernard O’Donoghue
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Co Cork in 1945.
His poetry is collected as The Weakness (London, Chatto & Windus, 1992); Gunpowder (Chatto & Windus, 1995), for which he was awarded the Whitebread Prize; Here Nor There (Chatto & Windus, 1999); Poaching Rights (Loughcrew, Co Meath, Gallery Books, 1999); and Outliving (Chatto & Windus, 2003).
As a critic, he has published Seamus Heaney and The Language of Poetry (Prentice Hall PTR, 1995).
Currently teaching Medieval English at Oxford University, he lives in the UK.
