You know they come – we replace the peanuts twice a week – as you move in shuffled age about your kitchen; know that as you near the geraniums on the window blue tits will scatter, greenfinches pencil the sky until once more the settling begins and your senses reach out to feathered friends, (colours you remember). And now you ask of this and that – your interest still intense in matters that occupy us – before we too will scatter.

This newly published Dánta 52 Poems: Widow's Son/Mac Baintrí is available from Mike Mac Domhnaill. Order a Copy of Widow’s Son/Mac Baintrí Book.

Widow's Son/Mac Baintrí is also in stock at Vicky Sullivan, Newcastle West, Bookstore, Market Yard, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. Phone: 069-66456
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Mike Mac Domhnaill is the real thing. In “Mac Baintrí/ Widow’s Son” he journeys through the lean years, through political upheaval, through the dark within in poems and versions that inevitably recover Christ in the sheer joy of existence. Here the splendour of being and the awfulness of being are mediated to us at times tenderly, at times angrily, all the time articulating the poet and his people. Michael Hartnett would be proud of him. Gabriel Fitzmaurice

Tá an-obair déanta anseo agus saothar thar cionn cumtha agus curtha i dtoll a chéile ann. Tá sé an-dea-scríofa ó chlúdach go clúdach agus, cibé acu i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla atá siad scríofa, seasann na dánta leo féin mar fhilíocht den chéad scoth, gan lorg an aistriúcháin le sonrú ar cheachtar leagan. Aodh Ó Gallchóir