Crooked Love / Grá Fiar (Paperback)

Description

Louis de Paor is one of Ireland’s leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language poetry renaissance of the 1980s and 90s. His dual-language selection The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale’s Tongue was published in 2014, following his selected poems, Rogha Dánta (2012), voted one of the top ten collections in Irish since the turn of the millennium.

This new dual-language selection is mainly drawn from two other collections. Cúpla Siamach an Ama/The Siamese Twins of Time and Grá fiar/Crooked Love. It shows a paring back of language and a greater flexibility of form in his poetry, as well as a preoccupation with the passage of time and its implications for both familial and sexual love.