Its Words You Want Cecilia McGovern

Its Words You Want Cecilia McGovernThe earliest of these poems reflect time spent in Barcelona where Patrick Kehoe taught English. Indeed many of the poems in this collection conjure the life of a young man abroad in that city, five years or so after the death of General Franco. Later poems pay moving tribute to his late parents and the people of his native city, Enniscorthy, as well as revisiting Barcelona. Other poems evoke in sensuous, luxuriant meditations the shimmering essence of

poems delivered in plain

unrequited desire

Amel Moussa

In it Ted Hughes discusses his commitment to world poetry and his approach to translation

It’s a scrapbook of stories

iancarrsnucleus

to the Southern territories of his distant American past

the translator

and pensive

I am picking up both a boldness

one feels the pressure of integrity behind his writing

Grenada Morning and The Forsaken Lover (for which he was awarded the Martin Luther King Prize)