The Fullness of Time: New and Selected Poems
“His work is distinguished by a deliberate unshowiness; a sense of every experience being tested in a language striped and primed against any false note. It is a poetry that is earthed in the ordinary, is wary of pyrotechics and is perpetually in search of the understated perfect note.”
Published: 2010
– Dermot Bolger
The Sunday Business Post
“…it reveals an exceptionally coherent voice, marked, perhaps by a certain deepening of tone that promises equal pleasures to come.”
– Fiona Sampson
The Irish Times
“With this collection he takes his place in a distinctive generation whose various abilities have yet to be fully realised. Like his predecessors such as Thomas Kinsella and Pearse Hutchinson, he draws from two main sources – the European poetic tradition and the Irish tradition of connection with particular places. Like them he explores a personal background and has a distinctive understated style. His is a quietly observant voice that avoids excess.”
– Maurice Harmon
Cork Literary Review