1989  75 pages
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 "His optimism is never forced, always aware of the 'gloomy procession of casualties'; but, like the salmon swimming upstream in the early poems in the book, his aim is to spawn into affirmation.  Montague has always organized his collections with great care, poems echoing and developing each other, and this is no exception.  It reveals a considerable poet at the heigh of his powers continuing to plumb 'the lost world of primordial depths.' " Conor Kelly, In Dublin

1995   376 pages
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“Irish life is complex in its interrelations and, of all living poets, Montague succeeds best in capturing this complexity at its deepest level. …perhaps the greatest volume of collected poems to emerge from an Irish poet since Yeats.” Eamonn Wall, Shenandoah

1995   376 pages
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“John Montague has been so long an established fact of the poetry of the English-speaking world that there is a tendency to take his really quite remarkable achievement for granted. He is a poet of enormous lyrical gifts, but he has as well an acute and dramatic sense of history -- reland's and the world's -- and a gentle moral insistence, all of which makes his Collected Poems an absolutely essential volume.” C.K. Williams

2001   88 pages
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“John Montague has spent a lifetime confronting his own vulnerability, and in doing so, has broadened and strengthened modern Irish poetry. ... As always, Montague sees clearly what has been lost, but also what has been retained and refined over a lifetime. What’s remarkable is the new energy which informs and transforms these well-crafted excursions into lost time. As such, this book is more a rejuvenation than a sequel, a revitalizing of a painful past into a permanent and healing present. Smashing the Piano is Montague at the top of his game.” Kevin Murphy, Irish Literary Supplement

1989   96 pages
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"Montague's Rough Field is a remarkable primer for those who would truly understand the division of Ireland today." James Coleman, The Compass

"John Montague's The Rough Field is a kind of 'state of the nation' poem, built up of visions and glimpses of locality, legend, and history, and as such it is astonishingly successful; moving, too, and as soundly crafted as the rosewood fiddle which seems to play with mourning sweetness in the margins." - John Bayley, The New York Review

1978   63 pages
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"One can only set up against [Montague] the great love poems: Chaucer's superb lyric, the most formidable of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a scattering from other Elizabethans and Cavaliers, together with a few poems each from Burns, Byron, Shelley, Landor, Browning, Meredith and Yeats.… From this time on, whatever else he may write, John Montague's voice will always be raised in the ranks of the great poets of our literature." Robin Skelton, Malahat Review

1984   84 pages
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"Montague's Rough Field is a remarkable primer for those who would truly understand the division of Ireland today." James Coleman, The Compass

"John Montague's The Rough Field is a kind of 'state of the nation' poem, built up of visions and glimpses of locality, legend, and history, and as such it is astonishingly successful; moving, too, and as soundly crafted as the rosewood fiddle which seems to play with mourning sweetness in the margins." - John Bayley, The New York Review

1975   64 pages
Rare & collectible first edition

A Slow Dance was the first volume published by Wake Forest University Press, a joint publication with The Dolmen Press and Oxford University Press.

1987   64 pages
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1980   48 pages
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Rare and collectible first edition with wrapped jacket

Why Brownlee Left, first published when Paul Muldoon was 29 years old, helped introduce the young poet to American readers. Many books later, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet is one of the most recognized names in contemporary poetry.