Sudden ThawOne by one the minutes bop up To the surface. From Insomnia A book of poetry by highly acclaimed writer Peggy OBrien. Peggy OBriens first collection Sudden Thaw opens with a taut sonnet sequence that laments her father, and close with an intrepid examination of what she calls the gauze of mother daughter Love, that knit of wills. Between these impressive and affecting suites she treats us to a man angled account of her discovery of herself as an

co-written with George Adamski

Together with its sequel

Poems 1952–2012 expands the scope of his much acclaimed Collected Poems of 2000 to include a selection of new poems along with an appendix featuring illuminating commentary on the historical and personal background of some of his most notable work

correct conduct has never been easier

the last entitled Neither Use nor Ornament is in Allison & Busby's Twentieth Century Classics series

‘living and dying … as though some ballad-singer had sung it all’

artist Elizabeth Butler (nee Thompson)

attending the Model School

its sights

water-diviners

in a sympathetic study of alcoholism

Reporting too for Dublin’s Hibernia