Selected Poems

Desmond Egan

Desmond Egan has 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 of poems 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), Seeing Double (1989), A Song for my Father (1989), and Peninsula (1992).

Goldsmith Press 1992

Translated into: Bulgarian, Russian, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, French, Italian

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Goldsmith Press
Newbridge
Co. Kildare
Ireland

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Bulgarian, Russian, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, French, Italian