'His
poems come freighted with deepening associations:
memories of first jobs and a vanished pet . . . and conclude here,
in 'Safe Haven', with a meditation on the lost histories of
detritus found under suburban lawns.'
— Thomas Dillon Redshaw, New Hibernia Review
Aidan
Rooney-Céspedes' first collection reveals an unusual maturity
and singular scope. His widely published, prize-winning poems
range from the rich imaginings of 'Retro Creation' through various
locales — County Monaghan where he was born and raised, through
Paris and the literary past, to North America where he now lives.
As it blends the colloquial and the macaronic in an astonishing
variety of forms, Day Release registers itself as the first
entry of a lasting signature in contemporary Irish poetry.
