Description
A near legendary teacher of poetry and poetics while connected to Eastern Washington University, Spokane, USA, James J McAuley is a highly respected and much admired Irish poet who can turn his hand both to sensitive lyric and to stinging social and political critique. This New and Selected volume, with an Introduction by his ex-pupil Paula Meehan, is a comprehensive overview of his work to recent times
“His style comes together most satisfyingly in ‘Sixteen Nocturnes’, written in 2003, which reminded me of Geoffrey Hill, of all people, or Browning’s mad monk gibbering away in his Spanish cloister. It’s impossible to engage fully with several decades of work in a short review, but suffice to say that where all too often McAuley has been absent, now at least he is back on the map.”
— David Wheatley, Sunday Tribune
ISBN 9781904556343 Paperback
140 x 216 mm
2005