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Originally published in 1999, this reissue of The Last Dreamers: New and Selected Poems draws on Padraig J. Daly's first five collections, both from Dedalus and the Profile Press. "Distinguished work which deserves wide acclaim" (Acumen); "the best kind of religious poetry" (Ambit).

Edoardo Sanguineti is the most important poet in Italy's neo-vanguard movement. His linguistic experiments have become very popular among Italians and in many countries throughout the world. They contain a wonderful lyrical continuity beyond their linguistic disorder. His work captures the anguish, the wit, and the need for human love in a world often beset by chaos. His wordplay and multiple levels of meaning and use of suggestiveness, together with his use of musical connotations, make his work exceptionally difficult to translate. Much of it has been set to music by the famous composer...

Padraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland, and is an Augustinian priest working in Dublin. He has published four previoius collections with Dedalus, including his new and selected poems, The Last Dreamers, in 1999. In Clinging to the Myth, he further explores issues of faith and belief, particularly in relation to the challenge of personal loss and bereavement. He reflects too on the emerging post-Christian Ireland and uses the voices of 18th century Gaelic poetry to reflect on the sufferings of modern war-torn peoples.

Irish poet Padraig J. Daly's latest collection of poems is set in a challenging place, "our unGodded world," as one poem calls it, "our infected kingdom," another. It is a place of darkness and heaviness of the soul, where things are left unfinished or in ruins and the sun goes down "protesting." But it is also a place that is somehow redeemed, a place made, if only momentarily, radiant by the perception of a greater design, by the vision of "a yellow ecstasy of leaves" in the street, and, most of all, by the guileless love and affection of the young whose laughter "lights / Every cobwebbed...