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A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment.

Examines the works of a range of poets to discuss poetry's ability to redress spiritual balance as a counterweight to oppressive forces.

The first book of its kind, Out of What Began traces the development of a distinctive tradition of Irish poetry over the course of three centuries. Beginning wi