Gunpowder

Bernard O'Donoghue (born December 14, 1945, in Cullen, County Cork, Ireland) is an Irish poet and academic known for his collections exploring rural Irish life and memory, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize-winning Gunpowder (1995), The Weakness (1991), and T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted The Seasons of Cullen Church (2016). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1999 and former tutor in medieval English at Oxford's Wadham College, he received the Cholmondeley Award in 2009 and continues as an emeritus fellow.