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By the Hearth in Min a' Lea
by Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Bilingual English / Irish edition
Translated from the Irish by Frank Sewell, Seamus Heaney and Denise Blake
Part of our Arc Translations series edited by Jean Boase-Beier
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Translation Winter 2005
Cathal Searcaigh is one of Ireland's leading poets, recipient of many major literary awards including the Irish Times Literature Prize, a member of Aosdna and, in Ireland, a well-known television and radio personality.
Whether writing about the beautiful Donegal landscape, or as a gay man about the intense emotions of love, or about voice and events from the past that resonate in the present, or simply telling a story, Searcaigh is always honest, clear-sighted and unafraid, lyrical, tender and funny: he tells it how it is.
This is the first selection of Searcaigh's poetry to be published by a British publisher and as such will be an introduction, for many English readers, to the startling freshness, energy, candour and inventiveness of this most colourful of poets.
A parallel text edition.
...he refuses to romanticise rural Ireland... a daring poet... He confronts the frustrations and wonders of rural Ireland with a risky, sexual modernity.
...takes us from breezy Donegal, with its memories of mountain women and water coming up clear from family wells in the not-so-swinging sixties, to the delights of life in London...
Paperback
180 pages
ISBN 1-904614-21-3
Published November 2005
