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An Irish poet looks back, past the snobbish abundance of his country’s recently upended boom years, to the appalling suffering of the Great Famine 
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There is nothing tentative, or merely suggestive, in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s new collection. Her academic training is outraged by vagueness, so that the poems grab a firm hold of their subject-matter; the work is pre-meditated, never a pen shuffling in the hope of inspiration.
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December 19, 2014 7:28 AM
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The winter of water goes on, and on, as house by house the streets sink into streams, pedestrians transform into canoeists chancing their arm, a paddle in the night. I tire of driving through the darkness straining to make out the way ahead
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Ulster poet had a ‘dramatic, engaged, fruitful literary life right to the end of his days’
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Thomas McCarthy on a perceptive analysis of Eavan Boland’s work and an attempt “to put the layers of gold back into contemporary poetry”.
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Here is an absence peopled with references from books. This chapel’s bank account has been frozen, this boy Beside me has a garment with bitterness for a mother; And a troubled face of mother-of-pearl. His looks Are those of a lost shepherd. He claims no other Place but here in this one Paradise without joy, This strangely beautiful; this one Jerusalem:
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What does it mean to be an Irish poet? Each of the five poets included in this volume— Seán Lysaght, Moya Cannon, Thomas McCarthy, John F. Deane, and Máire Mhac an tSaoi—provides a distinctive answer to this question.
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