The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town Synopsis

The judges of the Michael Hartnett Award for Poetry in 2015 highlighted CaitrÃ-ona NÃ- ChléirchÃ-nâ_Ts poetry as â_~powerful, courageous, sassy and important . . . Her mastery of Irish and sense of being at home in tradition and modernity is evident in poems set in the 17th century, poems framed by Gaelic mythology and in intensely personal lyrics. The poems are full of passion.â_TCaitrÃ-ona NÃ- ChléirchÃ-nâ_Ts romantic sensibility contrasts with the more urgent contemporary notes of the collectionâ_Ts concluding series of outraged poems haunted by memories of border crossings near her home place. The Talk of the Town includes a generous and varied selection of her work with translations into English by Peter Fallon and offers evidence of a meeting of minds and common ground.