By the Hearth in Min a' Lea by Cathal Ó Searcaigh Two Rivers This is intelligent

This is intelligent

Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency

before crossing several decades (and haircuts) on the gay scene in Manchester

come alive again in her hands… The Mining Road is a strong and varied book of poems… slow and concentrated pieces that register with great clarity the mystery of stories and images that exercise power over us

Time and its passage are at the heart of this reflective work

By the Hearth in Min a' Lea by Cathal Ó Searcaigh Two Rivers This is intelligentBilingual Irish English edition Translated from the Irish by Frank Sewell, Seamus Heaney and Denise Blake Poetry Book Society Recommendation Translation Winter 2005 Cathal Searcaigh is one of Ireland's leading poets, recipient of many major literary awards including the Irish Times Literature Prize, a member of Aosdna and, in Ireland, a well known television and radio personality. Whether writing about the beautiful Donegal landscape, or as a gay man