2014. Third collection. 31 poems. Written between Manchester and Canterbury during a period of power and unemployment, Bread and Honey explores rot, longing, friendship, the importance of history and what it may mean to laugh maniacally at oneself in a mirror, all whilst lightheartedly reminding us that life is a dark coil towards an unknowable and certain doom, and that it is to be enjoyed. This is the author's third full collection and marks definitively his graduation from rising megastar to masterful juggernaut, he says.

2016. Fourth collection. 37 poems. Written across Spain, England, Mexico and Costa Rica, Far Harbours is, frankly, a bloody miracle. The poems included range in mood from blind elation to doldrous pain and in topic from tablecloths and existentialism to the seedy, undeniable comfort of bodily fluids, all examined with the skill of a lover, the passion of a lover and the resourcefulness of a resourceful lover. Due to the international nature of this book's production process and the wayward lifestyle the author has chosen to lead, to date O'Brien has yet to lay his hands on a copy of the...