A New Tenancy

“Smyth’s voice is the natural inheritor of that rain-cooled genius, Thomas Kinsella… A New Tenancy operates at several levels, personal, historical, geographical, but it all coheres as a perfectly beautiful book, full of wisdom and lyricism. ”

Published: 2004

– Thomas MacCarthy

“The amazing and impressive thing for me is the sheer sustainability of it all; how the poet sustains the quality and imagery of the poems, poem after poem, something that some household names, even in Ireland, have visibly struggled to do of late.”

– Gwilym Williams,
New Hope International Review