Bøger af Sean O'Neill

This is Sean O'Neill's 21st poetry collection.

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This is Sean O'Neill's 20th poetry collection.

Like great music, fine poetry has power that can infuse the soul, transform the mind, and transcend the mundane everyday experience of life with what is timeless and supreme. Songs of Hunger is an exceptional collection of poems - rich in language, imagery, symbolism and breadth of thought, feeling, and place. Sean O'Neill is a poet of great skill and exceptional spirit. His poems take you on a quest of the soul in search of wholeness, healing, cleansing, and discovering a home for the restless heart. It is a journey of mercy and hope, love and faith in the One who paid the price that sets us free. You will find plenty here to feed and nourish both mind and spirit. O'Neill has published five previous collections of poems. This book not only builds on the others - it soars to a new level of feeling and spirit, hope and joy. - Don Schwager

From the dangers of eating cabbage to the inadvisability of rotten eggs, from punch-ups at a village fair to larceny, forgery and insanity "Cautionary Verses for Childish Adults" will ensure that your barely-suppressed titters receive funny looks from your fellow train passengers. This superbly illustrated volume is a collector's piece that will go down in the annals of history as one of the most brazen attempts to subvert the canon of English literature with heavily-salted doggerel.

An Act of Courage is Sean O'Neill's seventh collection of poetry. Set primarily against the background of a Midwestern American industrial city, its streets and strip malls, factories and parks, interwoven with soliloquies evoked by portraits, photos and memories, the poems explore courage in the face of weariness; of loss of domestic and spiritual illusions; of the frightening approach of personal intimacy; above all, in the face of the transience of life and the prospect of a final reckoning. These poems are, by turns, haunting, consoling, bracing and surprising.

St. Ninian (360-432) was a bishop generally credited as the first Christian missionary to Scotland, responsible for widespread conversions among the Celts and the Southern Picts. He studied at Rome and was given the mission of converting the Picts by Pope Siricius. He established an episcopal see at the Candida Casa in Whithorn, Galloway, Scotland. He is buried at Whithorn.It is said that St. Ninian used to retreat from the priory at Whithorn, to a cave at the end of the Machars peninsula to use it as a hermitage for prayer and meditation.The poems in this collection are "voiced" for St. Ninian; in other words St. Ninian is the speaker. They center round an imagined visit to the cave, in January 431 AD, a year before his death.

This is Sean O'Neill's 13th book of poetry.

This collection of Sean O'Neill's poems is his first. The poems cover periods when the poet lived or worked in London, England; Milan, Italy; Drummore, a small fishing village on the West Coast of Scotland; and St. Paul, USA. The subject matter of the poems therefore varies from the grittily descriptive 'Bridges' and 'Sweet Thames', which are set in London, to the pastoral 'The Hill' and 'in this atlas of headland' set in the South Rhins peninsula. The poems cover several years and a multitude of situations and yet a consistent voice emerges finding meaning in apparently insignificant details, and clothing mundane events in a tapestry of rich wordplay. Several poetic sequences are contained in this collection including the four-part 'this stage of life' a wry commentary on modern life and 'Winter 2011' which centers on the view from a window during the harsh weather conditions of that year. Some of the poems are satirical; others celebrate the joy of simple things. Some are dark while others are full of hope. Whatever the reader's disposition he or she will find something valuable in this volume that echoes the mood of the moment or the season of life.

In this comic thriller, the classic tussle between the good, the bad, and the well-meaning plays out in the freight yards of St.Paul, MN. Anderson is in it up to his neck. Fed up with being the linchpin in multiple train robberies, he attempts to extricate himself from the clutches of the unscrupulous construction magnate, Norstream. His feeble effort at going straight drive him to desperate measures. He and his friend, Brent, decide to kidnap Norstream's son, Randall, and play a dangerous game of chicken with one of the most powerful citizens in the Twin Cities. As the pressure mounts, with each player struggling for leverage over the others, things can only end with disaster for everybody. Or can they? This novel charts a comedy of errors that, in the end, shows that occasionally it's the unexpected underdog who comes out on top.

This is a practical book. By the time you finish reading it, you will have all the tools you need to write a convincing, compelling, and publishable novel. "How to Write a Novel: A Beginner's Guide" provides all the necessary techniques to enable your novel to be a success. Packed with insights and tips, it gives you everything you need to start the novel you've always wanted to write and see it through to the end.

This volume brings together for the first time a range of poems from the early part of this century to the present. Each of Sean O'Neill's eight volumes of poetry are represented in chronological order so that the reader gets a sense of the poet progressing and changing idioms, styles and diction depending on the mood, the subject matter and the particular moment in time in which the poem was being written. The poems tend to lie somewhere along a continuum between the formal at one extreme and free verse on the other, and there is much experimentation with form, punctuation and even typography. I hope you enjoy this selection of poems and that the messages contained herein find a place in your heart as it has in mine.

With this new collection Sean O'Neill explores the relationship between the child, the youth and the adult. What are the key moments that have contributed to the construction of a fully-formed human being? Here a number of poems masquerade as memoir but have a deeper message, sometimes wistful, sometimes humorous. Here, too, he draws on his Celtic upbringing and the questions of identity that it raises. Some of the nature poems are a new departure and celebrate the complexity and beauty of animals, insects and the weather. This book of poems is more playful than O'Neill's first book "this stage of life", and uses a more accessible idiom to convey mood, but nevertheless offers a coherent voice full of color and depth.

Preposterous, ruminations from the madhouse that will curl you hair, break your teeth and have you rolling in the aisles of the supermarket. These excellent verses are for children and for adults who wish that they had never grown up!

This is a practical book. By the time you finish reading it, you will have all the tools you need to write convincing, compelling, and beautiful poetry. Whether someone has asked you to come up with a poem for a special occasion, or you have suddenly been struck by an intense emotion and are looking for a way to articulate it, or you want to express love to your sweetheart on Valentine's day, "How to Write a Poem: A Beginner's Guide" provides all the necessary techniques to enable your poem to be a success.

This is Sean O'Neill's third collection of poetry in print.

This is Sean O'Neill's fourth poetry collection in print and it marks a progression from the sonnet forms of his previous book "The snipe in winter." These poems range from the memories of childhood in the country to darker memories of foreign hotels and sleepless nights. As always, the lyrical language shines through in both the free-verse and formal poems alike.

This hilarious and superbly-illustrated book of fiendishly clever limericks is not only a sure antidote to melancholy but a work of comic genius. From the jockey who traversed the Sudan on a cow, to Don Juan who came to a painful and unmentionable end, these limericks are a triumph of the verse form. The ideal Holiday or birthday gift for a friend or family member who needs cheered up.

In St. Paul, Minnesota, during the long hard winter, two friends discover a corpse in the trunk of their car during a road trip and are left trying to disposed of it without being detected. They along with a colorful cast of interconnected characters, are caught up in the warfare between rival gangs and the fall-out from a serial killer on the loose. Murder, violence, two hopelessly thwarted robberies, disemboweling by wild animals, car chases, and even romance culminate in a tense and explosive showdown in the eponymous "Blood Menagerie", where only the fittest survive.

This is a practical book. It tells you everything you need to know about writing non-fiction, from choosing a subject for your book, through the various ways of researching that subject, to the daunting process of structuring your material, what style you write in, how to edit, and ultimately how to get your book published.

This is Sean O'Neill's 10th book of poetry.

Winston Churchill referred to the depression from which he suffered, as his "black dog." In this poetry book, "Black Dog", Sean O'Neill explores the path of his own clinical depression, the effect that it had on his life and family, and his gradual recovery from the life-threatening illness.

In a rollercoaster ride of plot and counter-plot, Tooley, a Scottish student on sabbatical, becomes entangled in the gangland underbelly of the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Murder, illegal dog-fighting, robbery, gang warfare and a suicide bomber conspire to sink him deeper into the mire of the criminal world. If only he can find a way of escaping without incurring the wrath of the rival mob bosses, the FBI and the police, and still manage to stay alive...

Clean Weiss thought it was a simple matter of visiting a shrink for an honest assessment of his state of mind. But when Clean is invited along to group therapy, the shrink in question turns out have other plans besides guiding his patients through the labyrinth of their psyches. Why is Dr. Wright so secretive about his "extra-curricular activities"? Is there something sinister behind the cryptic messages he is writing in his notebook? As Clean precipitates headlong towards a final showdown with his nemesis, the stakes become impossibly high and in the end may cost him his life. This laugh-out-loud novel has a gem on every page, a villain round every corner and a girl in every port. Smart, funny and deliciously complex, Four Degrees grabs you from page one and takes you on an exhilarating white-knuckle ride through the windmills of a mind on the verge of collapse to the surprising and devastating twist in the tale.

What if you imagined yourself in a scene from the ministry of Jesus. What if you imagined yourself as an inanimate object: a cup, a rock, a mountain; or an animal, like the donkey on which Jesus rode into Jerusalem; or even something as insubstantial as the cloud that parted at Jesus baptism? All of these played a key role during the ministry of Jesus. What if you could see things through the eyes of these Wordless Witnesses.The poems in this book take on this point of view and present Gospel events from a new and surprising angle, which sheds light on the nature of Jesus, and also what it must have been like to be up close and personal with the Person who created the universe but humbled himself to visit us as a man.