Holy Land

At the heart of Maurice Riordan''s third collection is a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding - of boundary, townland and parish - is defined through the individual voices of the poet''s father and assorted friends, farmhands and neighbours (Moss, Dan-Jo, Davey Divine, the Bo''son, Uncle Tom the Buck, the Gully...