Aidan Mathews' first collection of poems in fifteen years
Born in 1956 and brought up in Dublin, Aidan Mathews won prestigious poetry prizes when he was scarcely out of his teens and had his first collection published at twenty-one with a second six years later in 1983. His third collection, According to the Small Hours, was published in 1998.
A unique talent
*John Banville*
The commingling here of the sacred and the secular lexicons
produces a powerful medicine, a haunted music. Mathews bides his
time well between incarnations. These are poems worth waiting for,
worth remembering, worth learning by heart
*Thomas Lynch*
The most talented poet of his generation in Ireland
*Sebastian Barry*
Dizzy and yet deliberate, devout but always streetwise, Aidan
Mathews moves and startles us. These very clever, complicated poems
challenge their own disenchantment and somehow maintain a religious
sense of life
*Michael Longley*
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