"Ireland has no equivalent of the Pléiade, the career crowning glory laid down on bible-paper bound between leather-tooled covers, yet here within the burnished gold covers of the New Collected Poems, heightened in their intensity by the claret coloured hues of the end papers and lettering, we have a volume that will glow on our shelves for generations to come." Clíona Ní Ríordáin on John Montague • Southword

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