'MacDonogh,
a fine recorder of the natural world, is also a marvellous poet of
love or, perhaps more accurately, the fragility of relationships.
MacDonogh should be on school courses . . .certainly givers of poetry
workshops should refer to him. I'm inclined to the view that the true value
of having Patrick MacDonogh's
work with us again is two-headed; he reminds us of the need for lyric
craft in poetry (that, for example, poetry and song are intimately
related), and that poetry is not journalism, not a mere lining up
of images in prose lines, but a meaningful attempt to elevate the
ordinary into the extra-ordinary, to overcome the everyday and re-form
it: perhaps even make it glorious.'
— Fred Johnston, Books Ireland
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