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A Small Psalter by Pádraig J.Daly
Pádraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. He is an Augustinian friar, working in the Dublin Liberties. He has published eleven collections of poetry and several volumes of translations from Irish and Italian. Translations of his poetry have been made into most European languages and collections have appeared in Italian and Romanian. His translation of a poem by Eduardo Sanguineti features on the dustcover of "The FSG (Farrar Strauss Giroux) Book of Twentieth Centure Italian Poetry".
The language of Daly's poetry is pared down, stripped bare, distilled to its essence, and there is not one unnecessary word, not one single distraction from either the ideas themselves or their poetic expression.
- Madeleine Lombard, "The Furrow"
In a limpid, luminous style, couched in simple accessible language and presenting as little more than fragments, Daly penetrates to the core of reality.
Poems of depth and harmony, a voice that resounds.
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, "The Irish Times"
A poetry whose complex simplicity we would do well to read with attention.
- Fiona Sampson, "Poetry Wales"
An interior journey marked out in exceptionally honest and moving terms ... a quiet music, distinctly hard to emulate.
- John F. Deane, "In Dogged Loyalty"
A Small Psalter
ISBN 9781-916075337, price €12.00
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