Gunpowder Valentine is the much anticipated New and Selected Poems from one of Ireland's most distinctive and singular poetic voices, a poet whose work is at once precise and open-ended, true to the world of experience and, simultaneously, engaged with the mysteries of existence. In the words of Dermot Bolger, "His is an imagination without borders, a probing and unsettling intelligence lightly worn." Gunpower Valentine presents the best of his three collections to date as well as a substantial selection of new poems which explore, among others things, the fertile ground of myth and show once...