The selection of poems in this book is only made of Irish poems in a trilingual version, which allows the reader to witness the process of translating the poems and enter the linguistic multiplicity and the thematic unity of the text at the same time…

Desmond Egan's poetry does not refuse the live-giving earth. He dedicated many beautiful poems to the Midlands of his youth, the little town of Athlone where he was born, the landscapes, the seasons, the inhabitants of Ireland. There is a poetic geography and a history or a Celtic pre-history…