""These are poems saturated with a language that wilfully exposes to us its (and by implication our) limitations the more [Dennis] O'Driscoll insists we hear it." Fran Brearton • Guardian "Puns make language face two ways, and are destabilising. And there is something tonally destabilised about this book, despite its tremendous coherence of style and topic." Fiona Sampson • Irish Times

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