Description
This 2007 collection sees Dubliner Smyth return to the subject of his native cit as he also extends his geographical and thematic reach in poems that are typically thoughtful, quiet-spoken and assured
“The book gives away enough of its author’s private life and reflections to make the reader ponder from page to page. One is left with the sense of a life of psalms. There is also a bardic ring to it in some of its sections: Smyth, perhaps because he is an accomplished journalist, recharges moments of insight in the movements of collective Irish experiences in the last thirty years. He seems in many instances in these poems the chronicler of Irish fate.” — James Liddy, An Sionnach
“A painstaking eye for the telling detail” — Philip Casey