The Water Horse

The Water Horse includes a selection of poems from Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s prize-winning collections, Feis (1991) and Cead Aighnis (1998), with facing translations into English by the award-winning poets, Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. In this work — characteristically rich in folklore and myth and courageous in its treatment of psychological states — versions of the natural and supernatural worlds coalesce. By their convergence of echoes and harmonies, freedoms and fidelities, the poems and translations in The Water Horse extend an already celebrated comhrá, or conversation, between three of Ireland’s leading poets.