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Desmond Egan published ten books of poetry, one of prose, and an acclaimed translation of the "Medea". Collections of his work have been published in translation in French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian. This selection features the finest work of a poet whose achievement is in the great Irish tradition which includes W.B. Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh, with whom he has been compared. Included are selections from "Collected Poems" (1983), "Midland" (1972), "Leaves" (1975), "Siege!" (1977), "Woodcutter" (1978), "Athlone" (1980), Snapdragon" (1983),
Critic Hugh Kenner wrote of Egan, "He is the first Irish poet to have broken free from the need to sound 'Irish': to manufacture some way of sounding 'Irish'".
Hardcover, winner of the National Poetry Foundation Award , 1984, this edition Goldsmith Press 1984.
Condition - slight dustdarkening to page block, the upper edge of the dustjacket at the head of the spine is creased ( and repaired at some point internally with small tape fixes ( what looks like archival tape)
