(Poems by Patrick MacDonogh is edited by Derek Mahon)
‘MacDonogh, a fine recorder of the natural world, is also a marvellous poet of love or, perhaps more accurately, the fragility of relationships . . . the true value of having Patrick MacDonogh’s work with us again is two-headed; he reminds us of the need for lyric craft in poetry . . . and that poetry is not journalism. — Books Ireland
‘Patrick MacDonogh is a very fine poet but like others of his generation, he has drifted from view . . . Perhaps we are only now in a position to critically appreciate the divergences that make up ‘Irish poetry’ and the men and women who wrote and published their books in Dublin, Belfast, London and further afield, between the Twenties and the beginnings of the poetry boom which started just a little after MacDonogh’s untimely death in 1961.’ — Gerald Dawe, Irish University Review
