Title: Blaris moor
Description: "Takes as its title and starting point a traditional popular ballad that commemorates the trial, conviction and execution of four militiamen in 1797. Larger conflicts shadow these poems, including World Wars I and II. Meditations on the Flight of the Earls in the early 1600s move to thoughts of the Somme and Flanders"--jacket flap description.
Subjects: Irish poetry, English poetry, Irish authors
Time periods: 21st century