Groundswell: New and Selected Poems draws on all of the previous
collections of one of Irish poetry's most distinctive and
compelling voices. The selection is introduced by Theo Dorgan.
Patrick Deeley's imaginative strength springs from his childhood in
the west of Ireland, a life close to and involved with nature. But
this is no simplistic nature poetry, the poems are rich - as is the
soil - with contradictions, growth and failure, life and death,
beauty and horror. If Deeley stoops to decipher the scripture of
the wood he is yet aware that even the human is fragile and will
pass back into that soil. The forms of the poems echo this watchful
care, their stanzas shaped, their language poised and cautious.
This volume of new and selected poems is a rich and a rigorous
achievement. -John F. Deane Though a number of Irish poets have
written about the great changes in Ireland during the last ten to
fifteen years, none have done it as beautifully, as potently as
Deeley.
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