'Peter Fallon's poetry has become very tough and alive, like a just-cut holly stick. Snappy and weighty. Very strong, sharp savour — and where do you find that these days.'
        — Ted Hughes

News of the World presents poems from three out of print collections, The Speaking Stones, Winter Work and The News and Weather, and from Eye to Eye. Also included is a selection of new poems including the Bicentennial poem of Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts where the author was Poet in Residence.

'Peter Fallon's poetry has continued to flourish and deepen despite the extraordinary demands of his career as a publisher. The late poems of his most recent collection, Eye to Eye, are the finest he has written. When the history of Irish poetry in the late twentieth century comes to be written, the name of Peter Fallon is sure to turn up everywhere.'
               — O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award Citation, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1993

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