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Francis Boutle Publishers, 2024. 384 pages. Hardback.
In this hugely ambitious multilingual work poet Rody Gorman recasts the medieval Irish text Buile Shuibhne – also known as ‘The Frenzy of Sweeney’ – into English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
in Gorman’s brilliant reinvention, we are brought into a human, linguistic and poetic world that contains multitudes – The Irish Times
An utterly extraordinary work … The variety, energy and invention is dazzling – Robert Macfarlane
A milestone and a work of exceptional originality based on the Gaelic tradition – Meg Bateman
An extraordinary and wonderful piece of writing … an extraordinary bridge between two languages … a pièce de résistance – Sara Maitland
This is a masterly sequence of poems – Peter MacKay
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