Grey Gowrie

The higher slopes of Parnassus

  • District and Circle

    Seamus Heaney

    Faber, pp. 76

  • Selected Poems

    Derek Mahon

    Penguin, pp. 186

  • Adaptations

    Derek Mahon

    The Gallery Press

The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland, www.gallerypress.com

‘August for the people and their favourite islands,’ wrote W. H. Auden in a poem from his early Marxist phase. This holiday season brings from our adjoining island a parcel of poetry better suited to Christmas or some elate private festival, a salvation of riches.

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