Porto

A new collection of poetry by one of Ireland's finest poets. His ongoing affair with his native Donegal landscape is unsurpassed in its subtle understandings of people and place.

Boyle's luminous poems are intimate portraits of confined and unsung lives, furnished with a sensuous exactness. Hermione, mourning her lost children, is cheered by the "blushing crimson tips" appearing in her winter garden. Birds are significant reminders of life, colour, and wry defiance in these self-assured poems of hard-won sustenance.