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SUMMARY:LITERATURE LIVE: John McAuliffe and Sean O’Brien 
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DESCRIPTION:John McAuliffe was born in 1973 and grew up in Listowel\, Co 
 Kerry and now lives in Manchester. He won the RTE Poet of the Future awa
 rd in 2000 and received a major Arts Council Bursary for first book A BE
 TTER LIFE\, which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize in 2002\; NEXT DOO
 R was published in 2007 and The Gallery Press have just published his th
 ird collection\, OF ALL PLACES\, which has received a PBS Recommendation
  for Autumn 2011 and receives its Manchester launch tonight. He teaches 
 poetry at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester.\n\
 nSean O’Brien is a poet\, critic\, broadcaster\, anthologist and editor.
  He grew up in Hull and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is Professor of
  Creative Writing at Newcastle University\, Fellow of the Royal Society 
 of Literature and 2007 recipient of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer’
 s Award. His selected poems\, Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976-2001 was 
 published in 2002 and his new verse version of Dante’s Inferno in 2006. 
 His first six individual poetry collections have all won awards\, most r
 ecently The Drowned Book\, which won both the 2007 Forward and T S Eliot
  Prizes\, the first time a book has won both awards. A book of short sto
 ries\, The Silence Room\, was published in 2008\; Afterlife\, his first 
 novel\, and Night Train\, a collaborative work of poetry and drawings wi
 th Northumberland artist Birtley Aris\, were published in 2009. His new 
 poetry collection\, November\, is the Poetry Book Society Summer Choice 
 and shortlisted for the 2011 T S Eliot Prize.\n‘…the bard of urban Brita
 in’ - Times\n‘…a terrific language technician’ - Guardian\n'His work is 
 elegiac and satirical\, interested in history\, politics and the imagina
 tion' - Independent on Sunday\n'A poet of unabashed political engagement
 \, wit and humour' - Guardian \n\nThis event is part of the Manchester L
 iterature Festival 2011.\n\n
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LOCATION:The John Thaw Studio Theatre\, Martin Harris Centre for Music an
 d Drama\, Manchester
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