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GERALD DAWE, born in Belfast, taught at University College Galway for many years. Currently a Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, he has published numerous collections of poetry and criticism.

This is a report from the immdediate field of action of Irish writing. It takes the form of a poet reading others and striking home time and again on the issues and questions that really matter. The effect is a challenge to the whole notion of what it is to be an Irish poet, or indeed, an Irish critic. A brave invigorating collection.---—Thomas Kilroy, playwright and novelist