This volume brings together, in an updated form, the poems the author 'wishes to preserve' from the work of forty years. When his Selected Poems appeared from The Gallery Press in 1990 The New Yorker remarked on their 'astonishing excellence'; and readers can now consider in its entirety the achievement, to date, of this extraordinary poet.
Highly praised in Ireland and abroad, the work ranges in time
and space from the early 'Beyond Howth Head' and 'A Disused Shed
in Co. Wexford' to ambitious later sequences, 'The Hudson Letter'
and 'The Yellow Book', and concludes with 'Roman Script' and 'St. Patrick's Day'.
