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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'".
Paperback, winner of the National Poetry Foundation Award , 1984, this edition Goldsmith Press 1984.
Signed with a dedication to the late Michael Osborne ( of horse racing fame) , dated 1987 ( the book itself was 1984)
