Published 2025. Paperback, 216pp, 9 x 6ins, £14.95 / $25
ISBN 9781848619203 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

The late John Montague was one of Ireland's finest 20th-century poets. He spent a lot of time in France, and made friends with a number of French poets. This volume covers his engagement with French poetry of his own time, albeit with a few glances back in history, with selections running from Verlaine and Valéry up to Michel Deguy (1930–2022) and Claude Esteban (1935–2006). While not a definitive anthology of French poetry, the book gives a vivid impression of a fine poet engaging with the work of his peers: personal, but revealing, and foregrounding the work of some under-recognised French poets of the post-war era.

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