'McDonald's work 'is entirely in keeping with Milton's enjoinder that poetry be simple, sensuous and passionate . His musicality is not just rich but endlessly varied and subtle. [...] It embodies the values of accuracy, conscience, and restraint but with no skimping of intensity or ferocity.' - David Wheatley, Irish Times; 'McDonald is often impressively adept at using varied ... Read moremetres for cadence, musicality, tension. He resists the over-dramatic, but is a poet of fierce feeling - moved and often moving.' - TLS Show Less