Selected by Seán Ó Ríordáin and translated by Greg Delanty

This is poetry from Ireland.

Selected by Seán Ó Ríordáin translated by Greg Delanty is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Selected originally written in Irish. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781780375366E12.

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.

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