A Poet's Country Book cover type:Paperback Long overlooked but now recognised

Long overlooked but now recognised as a quietly radical masterpiece

Ewart Milne and Derek Mahon

' Sara Baume \n \n'Elske RahillÕs sentences are relentlessly heat-seeking

describes ordinary lives and emotions in an extraordinary way

In this wide-ranging work

A Poet's Country Book cover type:Paperback Long overlooked but now recognisedWhile Patrick Kavanagh (1904 67) was above all a poet, for most of his writing life he was a prolific producer of critical and autobiographical prose. Work for newspapers and magazines was often his main source of income, and provided him with a necessary outlet for his views on the writers of his time, and past times; on the spiritual function of poetry, and on his own background and experiences as an isolated genius, impoverished, sometimes