Sean O’Brien’s poetry has received numerous awards, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize, the E.M. Forster Award, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize. His Collected Poems appeared in 2012. Europa is his ninth collection. His work has been published in several languages. His novel Once Again Assembled Here was published in 2016. He is also a critic, editor, translator, playwright, and broadcaster. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.