Ethna MacCarthy was raised in an upper middle-class Catholic family in south county Dublin that was steeped in literary and cultural connections. Her poems appeared regularly in Dublin and London and featured in the important US anthology New Irish Poets (1948). Poetry (2019) is the first collection of her poetry to appear. She died of throat cancer in 1959 in London.Eoin O’Brien is an acknowledged authority on cardiovascular medicine. He has also published widely on Irish writing and medical history including his innovative study of Samuel Beckett, The Beckett Country (1986), and The Weight of Compassion & Other Essays (2012).     Gerald Dawe is an Irish poet and Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin. Recent books of poetry include Mickey Finn’s Air (2014), The Last Peacock (2019) and a collection of essays, The Wrong Country (2018). He edited the ground-breaking anthology, Earth Voices Whispering: Irish war poetry 1914–45 (2008).

There is plenty to admire in the rich, intelligent and beautiful collection of poems contained in this book, and there are many themes and techniques that might be expanded on, but when it comes to a truly talented poet, it’s best left for the poetry to speak for itself.

Ethna MacCarthy was raised in an upper middle-class Catholic family in south county Dublin that was steeped in literary and cultural connections. Her poems appeared regularly in Dublin and London and featured in the important US anthology New Irish Poets (1948). Poetry (2019) is the first collection of her poetry to appear. She died of throat cancer in 1959 in London.Eoin O’Brien is an acknowledged authority on cardiovascular medicine. He has also published widely on Irish writing and medical history including his innovative study of Samuel Beckett, The Beckett Country (1986), and The Weight of Compassion & Other Essays (2012).     Gerald Dawe is an Irish poet and Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin. Recent books of poetry include Mickey Finn’s Air (2014), The Last Peacock (2019) and a collection of essays, The Wrong Country (2018). He edited the ground-breaking anthology, Earth Voices Whispering: Irish war poetry 1914–45 (2008).

There is plenty to admire in the rich, intelligent and beautiful collection of poems contained in this book, and there are many themes and techniques that might be expanded on, but when it comes to a truly talented poet, it’s best left for the poetry to speak for itself.

Ethna MacCarthy was raised in an upper middle-class Catholic family in south county Dublin that was steeped in literary and cultural connections. Her poems appeared regularly in Dublin and London and featured in the important US anthology New Irish Poets (1948). Poetry (2019) is the first collection of her poetry to appear. She died of throat cancer in 1959 in London.Eoin O’Brien is an acknowledged authority on cardiovascular medicine. He has also published widely on Irish writing and medical history including his innovative study of Samuel Beckett, The Beckett Country (1986), and The Weight of Compassion & Other Essays (2012).     Gerald Dawe is an Irish poet and Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin. Recent books of poetry include Mickey Finn’s Air (2014), The Last Peacock (2019) and a collection of essays, The Wrong Country (2018). He edited the ground-breaking anthology, Earth Voices Whispering: Irish war poetry 1914–45 (2008).

There is plenty to admire in the rich, intelligent and beautiful collection of poems contained in this book, and there are many themes and techniques that might be expanded on, but when it comes to a truly talented poet, it’s best left for the poetry to speak for itself.