A collection of poems that depict the author's personal encounter with her landscape. It celebrates the famous archaeological monuments of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange alongside local landmarks: the Maiden Tower, the seawall at Baltray and the discovery in a back garden of a cobbled garden dating from the early nineteenth century.
Salvaged from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, The Greek Anthology is a gathering of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by about 300 authors, from pre-classical times through Roman into Byzantine. David Constantine's selection focuses on poems treating man's responsibility for the earth and its creatures.