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THE WATER HORSE

'This happy merging of styles is a model of what translation should be. Ní Dhomhnaill's work has been remarkably well served once again.'
                                                            — Caitríona O'Reilly, The Irish Times

'The blurb does not exaggerate when it describes the book as 'an extension of an already celebrated comhrá, or conversation, between three of Ireland's leading poets.The exchange is one in three distinct, assured, well cultivated voices.'
       — Siobhán Ní Fhoghlú, Poetry Ireland Review
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Dublin, 26 September 1999. Photograph by Paul Sherwood
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The Water Horse includes a selection of poems from Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's prize-winning collections, Feis (1991) and Cead Aighnis (1998), with facing translations into English by the award-winning poets, Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.

In this work — characteristically rich in folklore and myth and courageous in its treatment of psychological states — versions of the natural and supernatural worlds coalesce. By their convergence of echoes and harmonies, freedoms and fidelities, the poems and translations in The Water Horse extend an already celebrated comhrá, or conversation, between three of Ireland's leading poets.


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PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER Cover Art: 'Woman & Child' (2003) by Michael Kane  THE ASTRAKHAN CLOAK  THE FIFTY MINUTE MERMAID - Cover Art: 'Untitled' by George Russell AE, from a private collection, courtesy of James Adam Salerooms