Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught medieval English and modern Irish poetry. Also a poet and a literary critic, his poetry collection Gunpowder was awarded the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award. He has authored and edited several titles, including The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney and Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection. In 2006, his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was published by Penguin.