Abstract

Brian Coffey was well served by the Irish University Review during the nineteen seventies, as he had been by its precursor the University Review: Maurice Harmon published his poems in its pages, and devoted a special issue to his work in Spring 1975.It is therefore fitting that these pages should salute the appearance of a handsome volume from Dedalus Press, offering us Coffey's Poems and Versions.Thomas Kinsella is another poet who has been well served by Maurice Harmon, who made his poetry the subject of an early and insightful monograph. The latest pair in Kinsella's ongoing peppercanister series are Madonna and other Poems and Open Court.