As If By MagicThis Selected Poems gathers together work published between 1991 and 2016 from collections that have been lauded, awarded and widely translated, collections that have gained a large audience and a considerable reputation, nationally and internationally, for one of Irelands foremost poets and most distinctive voices. A great deal has changed in the world in the arc of time covered by these poems, and those changes are noted and considered by poems that

won the Gold Drama Medal at the New York International Radio Festival

the insidious nature of depression

Things are tidal

000 Allied troops and 85

remake the world

Anyone who has returned to their childhood home

And in a world in which nothing can be taken on trust

they failed utterly to kill the visionary dreamer

The Blue Cat is a courteous

the contemporary stories in Sing Sorrow Sorrow grow out of European folk

It is the poems

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