‘A talented commentator/close reader. “A hearer and heartener.”’ Seamus Heaney

‘Adam Wyeth discloses the heartbeat of an unbroken culture in poems that talk totally to the dwelling second. straight away consultant to a wealthy, hidden inheritance and expert get together of the modern, here's a ebook that would illumine the brain and cheer the heart.’ Theo Dorgan

‘Wyeth’s essays excavate the elaborate Celtic motifs working via his selected poems with allure and precision. In doing so he plays the twin activity of bringing much less customary paintings to the fore in addition to illuminating new methods of examining outdated favourites.’ Josephine Balmer

In this precise booklet, Adam Wyeth unravels the various wealthy and sundry old Celtic legends which run via modern Irish poetry. each one bankruptcy starts off with a poem by means of one among Ireland’s top poets, via sharp, smart research of its making and references. in addition to poetry’s internal workings, the reader will find a wealth of Celtic tradition – their gods, heroes and folklore – and its carrying on with position in shaping Ireland’s identification within the twenty-first century.
Celtic mythology is way from a useless or peripheral a part of our historical past; its narratives and traditions are deeply intertwined into the cloth of our day-by-day lives. As each one iteration re-visits those old stories, our own and increasing lives supply clean interpretations of those age-old myths.
Including poems through Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Bernard O’Donoghue, Paul Durcan, John Ennis, Desmond O’Grady, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Mary O’Malley, Paula Meehan, Patricia Monaghan, Paul Muldoon, Maurice Riordan, Leanne O’Sullivan and Matthew Sweeney.