Oven Lane was a Poetry Ireland Choice when it was first published in 1987.

This revised edition and third printing continues to offer to readers Michael Coady's poems arising from the history and community of his native Carrick-on-Suir, extending to the search for emigrant family links in America.

In Poetry Ireland Review Terence Brown noted the warm, emotional openness of this work 'in which generous feeling and respect for individuals and the sacred quality of life itself finds engaging expression'.

Oven Lane anticipates the broader canvas of Michael Coady's widely admired All Souls.