Book record
Selected
Seán Ó Ríordáin
Translated from Irish by Greg Delanty
Selected, by Seán Ó Ríordáin and translated by Greg Delanty from Irish, brings Irish-language poetry from Ireland into English through selected Irish poems shaped by difficulty, inwardness, and the modern Irish lyric's muscular spiritual pressure. Because it is a selected volume, the book also has a curatorial task: to make one poet's range feel available without pretending to exhaust it. I would read it for Ireland, selection, solitude, and the stark music of a poet wrestling with self and world, not as a fixed lesson about Ireland. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Selected belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives readers a curated English-language entrance to Seán Ó Ríordáin.
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books
- Language
- Irish
- Country
- Ireland
- ISBN
- 9781780375366