Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other ways of being in the world. "Profound and in...
'The young, for all their glory, are desperate, like the Florentines in plague-time.'The young -- vividly alive, hopeful and uninhibited -- are the heroes of these boisterous novels by the renowned poet Brendan Kennelly. The Crooked Cross tells the d...