My review of My News for You: Irish Poetry 600 – 1200, Edited and translated by Geoffrey Squires is live on the Dublin Review of Books site from today.
I Review My News for You: Irish Poetry 600 – 1200, by Geoffrey Squires for The Dublin Review of Books
5 responses to “I Review My News for You: Irish Poetry 600 – 1200, by Geoffrey Squires for The Dublin Review of Books”
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Excellent review– really a review essay. For those of us who read widely and promiscuously this review upgrades our conversation about early Irish poetry. The symbolic culture of the poems as well as the nature of the sentence clearly must influence our readings of the translations. I’d like to read Billy Mills on Mad Sweeney, which I find fascinating. A topography of the old Celtic way?
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Thanks, Tom. Funnily enough, I’ve often considered writing about Sweeney. One of these days.
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Thanks, Michael. It really is a very good book.
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