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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - THE GIRL WHO MARRIED THE REINDEER

'There is something second sighted, as it were, about Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's work, by which I don't mean that she has any prophetic afflatus, more that her poems see things anew, in a rinsed and dreamstruck light. They are at once as plain as an anecdote told on the doorstep and as haunting as a soothsayer's greetings.'
— Seamus Heaney

'The beauty of this book is that it consolidates the high purpose of Ní Chuilleanáin's career, it quests forward on a continuous, sophisticated, moral journey.'
— Thomas McCarthy, Cork Literary Review

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'Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is one of the finest poets writing in English today. Her seventh and latest collection is the peak of 30 years of high carat poetry . . . With her latest collection, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will feed poetry-starving readers the finest of poems.'
— Marco Sonzogni, The Irish Times

Questions of inheritance permeate Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's scintillating new collection. 'The blood that was sown here flowered,' she writes, 'the past keeps warm,' and though 'the story has moved away,' she stores and treasures the shards of it.

Never has her genius for penetrating detail been more apparent -- from 'the rain darning into the grass' ('Bessboro') to 'the cello changing gear at the foot of the long hill' ('Crossing the Loire'). She is a poet of perfect pitch. The work in this book is among the finest being written in Ireland, or anywhere else.

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