'A poet of obsession and ritual...often elusive or mysterious...enlivened with his saturnine, uncomfortably insistent humour...Ambitious and troubling, linking Ireland to the Black Sea and madness to history, grim as death and very funny' - Sean O'Brien, Guardian. 'Haunting fables of entrapment or imprisonment, of troubled sleep, of persecution and loneliness treated with Kafkaesque attention to detail' - Alan Brownjohn, Sunday ... Read moreTimes. 'With its landscapes of desolate isolations, his is often an evocatively noirish world of contemporary angst - The persona of the poems is a troubled, self-aware consciousness taking in but never quite making sense of a contemporary world of fragments, a consciousness stretched and strained, but untouched by self-indulgence, self-pity or self-regard' - Eamon Grennan, Irish Times. Show Less