Herne the Hunter

by Peter McDonald

From award-winning poet and one of the most important Northern Irish writers and critics of his generation, Peter McDonald, comes an earthy and sensual new collection. Drawing from the landscape of his native Ireland and indebted to the works of Heaney, Yeats and the Ancient Greek classics, each poem in Herne the Hunter reveres both the brutality and beauty of nature. From a hare caught in a trap resigned to its grim fate, to a despondent farmer's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784101729
• ISBN13: 9781784101725
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 8.3"