Book description
Michael D. Higgins is one of Ireland's leading public
intellectuals. As well as having made a significant contribution to
public life, he is a prolific poet, whose work ranges from the
personal to the political, and geographically from the west of Ireland
to Nicaragua and the Middle East. Here, he has gathered together the
very best of his poetic output over the years. In these poems, he
casts a wry, compassionate eye on human weakness and resilience, and
the centrality of love to all human relations. Throughout it all, his
yearning for a world marked above all by social justice stands out.
This collection is a treasury of the very best of his writing over the
years and is sure to delight younger readers as well as his
established followers.
