19th November 2011 at 7.30pm. £7 entry   

Bernard O'Donoghue is a poet and literary critic. His 1995 collection, Gunpowder won the Whitbread Poetry Award. His Selected Poems was published by Faber and Faber in 2008. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2009. Bernard is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and a senior member of the Oxford University Poetry Society.  His book, Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (Harvester 1995) was reprinted 2005; his verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin Classics, in 2006; and his new collection, Farmers Cross was published by Faber in 2011.