'Quite simply the most remarkable collection of poems by an Irish poet in a year which gave us important new collections by such as Heaney, Muldoon and Kinsella.'
- Terence Brown, Poetry Ireland Review
'The longer pieces . . . are virtuoso feats of controlled association . . . the short poems are, as much for their exactness and composure as for their undertow of loss and fright, indispensable.'
- Alan Jenkins, The Observer
'Ciaran Carson is a superb storyteller in verse, comparable with R S Thomas, Robert Frost or Patrick Kavanagh . . . This is a marvellous book: calm, sad, incisive, and, at times, very funny.'
- The Sunday Tribune
- Terence Brown, Poetry Ireland Review
'The longer pieces . . . are virtuoso feats of controlled association . . . the short poems are, as much for their exactness and composure as for their undertow of loss and fright, indispensable.'
- Alan Jenkins, The Observer
'Ciaran Carson is a superb storyteller in verse, comparable with R S Thomas, Robert Frost or Patrick Kavanagh . . . This is a marvellous book: calm, sad, incisive, and, at times, very funny.'
- The Sunday Tribune
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