Picked up a copy of the above in Pallas at the Goldsmith Awards where Peter Fallon was the judge and guest reader. This is his first collection in seven years and is a series of prayers for his daughter and son and for their generation, though there is a second part where~ Snatches of Tibullus pave the way for two extended translations~ (from the cover). Peter Fallon was born in 1951 and grew up on a farm near Kells in County Meath. He founded the Gallery Press in 1970 and his books include News of the World: Selected and New Poems (1998), The Georgics of Virgil (2004, Oxford World's Classics) and The Company of Horses(2007). For anyone interested in Meath poets, any or all of the above would be a must, though his influence through The Gallery Press and his writing extend far beyond that corner of the Royal County he calls home. As he mentions in the acknowledgements much of the above was finished in the course of a spell at Boston College as Burns Library Visiting Scholar. A member of Aosdána and winner of the Ó Shaughnessy Award, he lives in Loughrew County Meath. The poems are beautifully crafted and rhyming patterns easy to both eye and ear. One for the collection. The website of the Gallery Press: www.gallerypress.com
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