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[ERRIS, 2002]

Seán Lysaght is a poet treasured for his explorations of the discipline of silence and watching. In Erris, his local focus is reflected through broader perspectives. His poems use meditations on the natural landscape for wider speculation while, in a sequence about Limerick, the city where he grew up, the speaker plays devil’s advocate with ideas about culture and traditions. The collection closes with an extended narrative based the author’s move, with his family, to Connacht.