The Second Voyage gathers forty-two poems from the first three collections by one of Ireland's most original and mesmerizing authors.

They range from meditations on myth and history to evocations of a human landscape in which presences and absences are apprehended through the author's complex, imaginative visions and her accomplished craft.

Time and memory are explored; poems move from past to present and back again with cinematic fluency, and in a central poem, 'Site of Ambush', personal and historical experiences are recorded from shifting perspectives. Events are felt before they're understood and in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's precise, commanding poems, the everyday and the mysterious are startlingly presented.